Where men can't live gods fare no better.
Cormac McCarthyTags: philosophical
I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
Richard P. FeynmanTags: philosophical cosmology
The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep tripping over a hidden step, over and over, till you finally understand: Watch out for that step! Everything that's wrong with us, if we're too selfish or too Yessir, Nosir, Three bags full sir or too anything, that's a hidden step. Either you suffer the consequences of not noticing your fault forever or, one day, you do notice it, and fix it. Joke is, once you get it into your brain about that hidden step and think, Hey, life isn't such a shithouse after all again, then BUMP! Down you go, a whole new flight of hidden steps.
There are always more.
Tags: inspirational philosophical thoughtful david-mitchell
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!
Tags: advice ataraxy philosophical coming-of-age fathers-and-sons
People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.
James McGregorTags: inspirational people philosophical accomplishments
If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That's why people who do nothing are idiots, but idiots who do nothing are life-savers.
James McGregorTags: people philosophical idiots
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.
George OrwellTags: inspirational philosophical imperialism
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.
Boris PasternakTags: philosophical
Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking to a daily ritual and becoming absorbed in something useful. When the war is over, even the greatest warriors do not exult. They go back to their garden or kitchen or library -- or school -- and resume life.
(as said by Mrs. Pearson)
Tags: inspirational philosophical
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: inspirational philosophical
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