Camus said there is only really one serious philosophical question, which is whether or not to commit suicide. I think there are four or five serious philosophical questions:The first one is: Who started it?The second is: Are we going to make it?The third is: Where are we going to put it?The fourth is: Who's going to clean up?And the fifth: Is it serious?Out Of Your Mind (2004), Audio lecture 1: The Nature of Consciousness: A Game That's Worth The Candle.
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There__ only one person to blame for lack of self confidence
Never condemn yourself. Always affirm positive words into your life.
. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, __o I or do I not wish to commit suicide?_ If we say, __o I do not,_ as most of us would, it is because we have reasons for living, or at the very least real hope that we can find such reasons. Then the next question is: what are the reasons I personally have for saying __o_ to that question? The answer contains the meaning of my life.
All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.
Definition is a choice.
If you forget who you've become remember who you are
Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
It is the honey which makes us cruel enough to ignore the death of a bee
Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.
If a stone hits a river, the river will treat it as yet another commotion in its already tumultuous course. Nothing unusual. Nothing unmanageable. If a stone hits a lake, however, the lake will never be the same again.
The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs!
Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?
There's no such things as sweet as dreamWell maybe if you live on itBut you could live such a sweet lifeIf you'd just realized how alive your dreams beat
When dreaming is better than reality we're livingWhat's the sense of waking up in a nightmare?
In the strange dreams of man, there are stories that are unknowingly being built by them. Mine are among the billions that remain untold.
All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....