philosophy
“My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.”
“The goal of all life is death.”
“Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”
“Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”
“Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both — as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.”
“Cartesian, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum -- whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.”
“Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.”
“Those who restrain Desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or Reason Usurps its place & governs the unwilling.”
“Energy is Eternal Delight”
“Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.”
“To restore silence is the role of objects.”
“It is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity.”
“God is a witness that cannot be sworn.”
“Nothing to be done.”
“We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life.”
“Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.”
“Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.”
“One thought fills immensity.”
“The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.”
“The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.”