The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.
Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.
Born free. Taxed to death.
When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think "of course it's that way, why would it be any other way?" It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.
I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.
The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.
At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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