All Quotes By Tag: Philosphy

“We spend so long trying to get what everyone else has, that we don’t even realize that we all ready have it all.”

“He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was. A cancerous violence had eaten into every political idea, had taken over the ideas themselves, and for so many, all that mattered was the willingness to do something. Action led to action, free of any moorings, and the way to be someone, the way to catch the attention of the young and recruit them to one’s cause, was to be enraged. It seemed as if the only way this lure of violence could be avoided was by having no causes, by being magnificiently isolated from loyalties. But was that not an ethical lapse graver than rage itself?”

“For thousands of years humanity has been trying to answer the question: “Do we have life after death?” Maybe for the first time you must now answer the question: “Do I really have a life before death?”

“What is faith, if not an acceptance that there are things out there that cannot be explained?You know what you know, because you’ve never lived a life without that truth. That you are different, that your gender did not compute with that label assigned at birth. It does not matter how large a percentage of the general population is perfectly fine with their identity. That does not change you, how you responded to the mechanisms that made you who you are.”

“Sin is like mold—the longer it lives, the blacker it becomes. And spores can’t be avoided. Never.”

“Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?”

“Don’t act your role, be yourself.”

“I feel bad for you . If you only feel better about yourself when you body shame others . When you are oppressing others or you others are failing.”

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

“It is better to try and fail than to wonder what if.”

“You know, your grandmother once told me something that the Native Americans say about dogs with different-colored eyes: they are extraordinary, for they have the ability to look upon both heaven and hell.”

“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn’t I?”

“Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s free will.’ Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the impulse wants to do whatever it wants to do. But you are afraid of what others think, others who are just as afraid of what you think, and so you pussyfoot along the perimeter of the free-will zone, wilting like a wallflower.”

“Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.”

“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”