Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.
Richard FinneyTag: horror philosophical thriller
If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way
Benny BellamacinaTag: humour philosophical children-s-books poetry-quotes
That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.'
'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.
Tag: philosophical
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
AristotleTag: inspirational philosophical
Rubashov had always believed that he knew himself rather well. Being without moral prejudices, he had no illusions about the phenomenon called the "first person singular" and had taken for granted, without particular emotion, that this phenomenon was endowed with certain impulses which people are generally reluctant to admit. Now, when he stood with his forehead against the window or suddenly stopped on the third black tile, he made unexpected discoveries. He found that those processes wrongly known as monologues are really dialogues of a special kind - dialogues in which one partner remains silent while the other, against all grammatical rules, addresses him as "I" instead of "you," in order to creep into his confidence and to fathom his intentions, but the silent partner just remains silent, shuns observation, and even refuses to be localized in time and space.
Arthur KoestlerTag: philosophical
Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.
Mark R. FaulknerTag: life-experience philosophical
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change.
----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986
Tag: philosophical irony introduction american intro a-clockwork-orange-resucked
I do, I am
Benny BellamacinaTag: wisdom inspirational philosophical
If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.
E.A. BucchianeriTag: inspirational pain power god death suffering sin salvation jesus philosophical death-and-dying christian thought-provoking cross catholic redemption christ catholic-author good-friday gadfly suffering-jesus purpose-of-pain purpose-of-suffering reason-for-suffering reason-of-pain theological
I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them -- that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live.
Leo TolstoyTag: philosophical
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