#philosophy quotes

[philosophors]

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.”

— William Faulkner

[theshadowworker]

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are

- Carl Jung

[urmomswifesworld]

[wethepoems]

You don’t have a soul.

You are a soul.

You have a body.

C. S. Lewis

[thesorcerersapprentice]

For my part, I have found that, when I wish to write a book on some subject, I must first soak myself in detail, until all the separate parts of the subject-matter are familiar; then, someday, if I am fortunate, I perceive the whole, with all its parts duly interrelated. After that, I only have to write down what I have seen. The nearest analogy is first walking all over a mountain in a mist, until every path and ridge and valley is separately familiar, and then, from a distance, seeing the mountain whole and clear in bright sunshine.

— Bertrand Russell, The History of Western Philosophy.

[diaryofaphilosopher]

The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity; therefore it cannot unfold in the antagonistic relations between oppressors and oppressed. No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so. Attempting to be more human, individualistically, leads to having more, egotistically, a form of dehumanization.

— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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[evolvingmonkey]

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

~ Franz Kafka

[persephonediary]

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

— Fredrich Nietzsche

[dintrimeatarot]

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung

[whowrestleswithgod]

A human being is so miserable when all he wants is to stay alive.

Sigmund Freud, The Man In Private Life    

[philosophors]

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

[theshadowworker]

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer

- Albert Camus

[terminallynumb]

[wethepoems]

Art and love are the same thing: it’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you

Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

[alchemisoul]

"How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?"

- Stephen Fry

"I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say."

- Flannery O’Connor

[diaryofaphilosopher]

Self-depreciation is another characteristic of the oppressed, which derives from their internalization of the opinion the oppressors hold of them. So often do they hear that they are good for nothing, know nothing and are incapable of learning anything−that they are sick, lazy, and unproductive−that in the end they become convinced of their own unfitness.

— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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