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cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan
"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis
“If man is free to define for himself the conditions of a life which is valid in his own eyes, can he not choose whatever he likes and act however he likes? Dostoievsky asserted, “If God does not exist, everything is permitted.” […] However, far from God’s absence authorizing all license, the contrary is the case, because man is abandoned on the earth, because his acts are definitive, absolute engagements. He bears the responsibility for a world which is not the work of a strange power, but of himself, where his defeats are inscribed, and his victories as well.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
Been reading soul music by Terry Pratchett and really like this line
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
— Rene Descartes, Principles of Philosophy
do you ever think about this quote by mary lambert because i think about it all the time
sam sax, hydrophobia
ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous
v.e. schwab, the invisible life of addie larue
i exist i exist i exist, flatsound
— soulinkpoetry
“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”
— Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
“‘Look at me’ is one of the most fundamental desires of the human heart.”
— Bertrand Russell, What Desires Are Politically Important?
"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)
“What so pure as some of the morals, included in some theological system? What so corrupt as some of the practices, to which these systems give rise?”
— David Hume, The Natural History of Religion
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies
tgcf quotes that'll make u inhale ice shards
“only after having met you did I rediscover that it’s such a simple thing to be happy.”
“to some, the mere existence of a certain person in this world is, in itself, hope.”
“there was a period of time in my life that wasn’t easy, and during that time, I’d constantly think that, should someone witness the me who rolled in the dirt, unable to get up, yet still love me for who I was, that’d be great.”
“If I could, I would have you use me as your stepping stone, the bridge you burn after crossing, the corpse bones you need to trample to climb up, the sinner who deserved the butchering of a million knives. but I know you wouldn’t allow it.”
“something like a genuine heart is made to be trampled.”
“to watch with your own eyes your beloved be trampled and ridiculed while unable to do anything - that’s the worst suffering in the world.”
“to me, the one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. what matters is you, and not the state of you.”
“those who have known each other for decades can become strangers in a day. we met by chance and we may part by chance. if we like each other, then we shall continue to meet; if we don’t, then we shall part. there’s no banquet in the world that doesn’t come to an end, so I’ll say what I want to say.”
“I will fight for what I don’t have. I will change fates I don’t possess. my fate is up to me, not the heavens!”
“I might not be able to decide whether the road is easy or not, but whether I walk it is entirely up to me.”
“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
— Henry David Thoreau, The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau
Imagination is the tool that helps you shape your circumstances rather than being shaped by them.
—Neville Goddard