#philo thoughts

[dwellsinparadise]

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.

—Simone de Beauvoir

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Photograph of Kundera by Elisa Cabot

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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

~Milan Kundera

source: Philo Thoughts

[y2kaee]

"While we wait for life, life passes..༄"

Seneca .

[ehyehyhwhh]

Animal Farm

[poniadeaur]

The only way to supreme happiness is freedom and rebellion

[jdlncm]

II.

My tutor taught me not to favour either green or blue at chariot races, nor in the contests of gladiators, to be a supporter either of light or heavy armed. He taught me also to endure labour; not to need many things; to serve myself without troubling others; not to intermeddle in the affairs of others, and not easily to listen to slanders against them.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book I

[novelcrackerr]

🎶🎶 why are we all trapped inside our own desires that we all think are ours but it's just a bunch of consumism/capitalistic goals that society have inflicted upon us 🎶🤟🏼 why do we seem like we are real when there isn't even a such thing as our own willpower 🎶 our so denominated willpower is just a series of biochemical processes in our minds that we call hormones and emotions 🎶🎶

Nothing is real.

Everything is a lie.

🎶🎶

#this is not even a proper song #its probably just a bunch of inflicted opinions over my brain that have been previously manufactured by other thinkers and nihilistic cat owners #i am becoming very nihilistic lately and nothing is helping me to pull the other way

#im probably writing a book about this fr

[leonyyur]

Ich bin ein Mensch wie jeder andere auch. Ja ich mache Fehler, ja ich denke zu viel nach, ja ich werd auch nicht immer der selben Meinung meines Gegenübers sein, aber schlussendlich sind wir alles Menschen mit der gleichen Intention hinterm Leben.

Wir wollen alle glücklich sein, und wir alle haben es verdient glücklich zu sein. In den vergangenen Monaten bin ich durch Himmel und Hölle gegangen, nun steh ich hier und habe meinen Frieden zu mir selber gefunden. Ich weiß wer ich bin, ich weiß wer gut und wer schlecht für mich ist. Ich habe mit dem Hauch von Gesindel nichts mehr am Hut und plötzlich hat mein Leben eine ganz andere Bedeutung.

Ich kann endlich behaupten dass ich glücklich bin, ohne mir groß Mühe gegeben zu haben. Ich habe angefangen zu lesen, wo ich dachte nur die “Streber” würden Bücher lesen. Ich habe angefangen einen Nächtlichen Spaziergang zu machen, statt meine Gefühle mit Drogen und Alkohol zu betäuben.

Ich habe aufgehört meine Laune von Menschen abhängig zu machen die mir nur im Weg stehen und das kleine Hauch an Glück was ich hatte, nichtmal vom Herzen gönnen.

Ich dachte ich würde einsam sein, ich dachte ich würde durch diese “Einsamkeit” zu Boden gehen. Ich habe mich so unglaublich leer gefühlt, bis mir bewusst wurde, das alles was ich brauche Ich selber bin.

Was ich damit eigentlich ausdrücken möchte, es ist besser alleine seinen Weg einzuschlagen als mit Menschen die dir nur die Steine in den Weg legen.

Du bist für dein Leben verantwortlich. Lass es dir von niemandem kaputt machen !

[unsociable-and-taciturn]

friendly reminder that “men” and “meh” have one-letter difference

[somrvni]

Shall We Serve the World what they want to see Or Shall we Let them know who We Truely are. -Libero.

[dwellsinparadise]

They have removed the struggle to find anything. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles. In that way, you'd go in this dusty old place, and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone.

—Tom Waits

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(Art: Photograph of by Eric Mulet)

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Meditation is not what you think.

You sit in absolute silence and your mind starts going over all your movies. During that process, you become so familiar with the scripts you keep in your life that you end up getting sick of them. Then you realize that the person you think you are is nothing but a complicated script you spend most of your energy on.

After a more thorough examination, you discover your personality disgusts you, and that’s because it's not really you. If you feel terrified enough about that personality, you spontaneously allow it to fade away. Then, if you're lucky, you can experience yourself without the distortion of that personality.

There's so much talk about the mechanics of happiness - psychiatry and pills, positive thinking and ideology - but I really think the mechanism is there. All you have to do is get quiet for a moment.

~Leonard Cohen

(Source: Unclear/Consider one of Cohen’s most celebrated books: Book of Longing)

(Philo Thoughts)

[y2kaee]

"Million feelings,

Zero words.."

Unknown

[ehyehyhwhh]

“The person you loved unconditionally….they going to teach you how to never love like that again”

[naavybluee]

When I see something and I miss the opportunity to capture it well somehow, capture it either in my mind or read it again, or even see it again, just as I have not have had enough of it yet; I hold my breath and close my mind and go to look for it intensely. I avoid everything that comes my way, any other piece that could distract me because the way that object interacted with me in a particular manner, it might not be unique, maybe belonging to a set, and I know if I allow anything else to get to me before I experience that object in that same state again will be different. If I allow any other thing, it will culminate to an impure mix and I will not be able to experience that object in the same manner again. It will become an alloyed experience. I hold a distaste to this impurity, although, it is highly probable for it to occur and at times even leads me other things, just as I write right now, yet, I have this impractical wish to be able to experience that object in the same manner again.

— from mio’s i am yet to categorise my writings and hence it perfectly fits “excerpt from a book i will never write”

[nehaachan]

When you lie to someone,

You are stealing their share of truth from them.