David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them....
Tag: philosophy
Jostein Gaarder, Maya
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths....
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Of Equality–as if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself–as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same....
K. Crumley
Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success…and I will simply say, “good Karma....
Leszek Kołakowski, Metaphysical Horror
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading....
Sherman Alexie, War Dances
It’s not oil that runs the world, it’s shame....
Octave Mirbeau
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she...
Rick Aster, Fear of Nothing
Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all....
Lauryn Hill
If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with...
Henry David Thoreau, Walden & Resistance to Civil Government
It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it....
