Wisdom and Folly

I'm a 20 year old college student studying Philosophy, you can follow my main blog at aratoarete.tumblr.com

[kbass2112]

You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.

Pan’s Labryrinth (via blindeyeswillsee)

[all-the-things-you-want-to-hear]

Sometimes bridges burning isn’t a bad thing. It prevents you from going back to a place you should never have been to begin with.

Unknown (via perfect)

[anaplekte]

Teccam explains there are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart. Most secrets are secrets of the mouth. Gossip shared and small scandals whispered. There secrets long to be let loose upon the world. A secret of the mouth is like a stone in your boot. At first you’re barely aware of it. Then it grows irritating, then intolerable. Secrets of the mouth grow larger the longer you keep them, swelling until they press against your lips. They fight to be let free. Secrets of the heart are different. They are private and painful, and we want nothing more than to hide them from the world. They do not swell and press against the mouth. They live in the heart, and the longer they are kept, the heavier they become. Teccam claims it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart. Any fool will spit out poison, he says, but we hoard these painful treasures. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. They they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.

 Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear (via anaplekte)

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[aratoistar]

#doctor who

[aratoistar]

A clever, thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is.

Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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Lisa Congdon

[aratoistar]

Kierkegaard is one of my favorite philosophers :D

[damatris]

“…nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”

Patrick Rothfuss (via damatris)

[aratoistar]

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

― J.R.R. Tolkien

[aratoistar]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

[aratoistar]

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

[aratoistar]

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

[aratoistar]

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

[melinjocloud]

And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you, to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say “No. This is what’s important.”

I Wrote This For You: The Grand Distraction  (via coffeeisjolly)

[you-fucked-it-friend-deactivate]

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons (via tears-wont-heal)

[you-fucked-it-friend-deactivate]

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett, Diggers (via tears-wont-heal)

[you-fucked-it-friend-deactivate]

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

Sarah Dessen, Just Listen (via tears-wont-heal)

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But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (via tears-wont-heal)