[philosophybits]

“What’s cheap is not durable. Quick understanding is only a sign of the banality of what is understood.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent

[shadeofgreed]

I want to study you. I don't want to just learn your habits, but I want to entirely dissect the person you are. I want to understand you to your core. The lust, the sex, the passion of everything else is second in my mind.

I want to see that fragile girl inside you. The doll that gets tossed aside whenever a new toy comes around. I want to restitch your broken pieces together so you know what it's like to feel important again. I want you to understand what it's like to have someone that aches to tear into your soul and leave you poisoned. To leave you unlovable for anyone else.

[afleshfesten]

« Être de gauche c'est d'abord penser le monde, puis son pays, puis ses proches, puis soi ; être de droite c'est l'inverse. »

Gilles Deleuze

[philosophybits]

“Associate with those you can learn from. Let friendly relations be a school of erudition, and conversation, refined teaching. Make your friends your teachers and blend the usefulness of learning with the pleasure of conversation.”

— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

[philosophybits]

“The German word for “meaning” is derived from the German word for “pointing.” When Augustine talks about the learning of language he talks about how we attach names to things, or understand the names of things. Naming here appears as the foundation, the be all and end all of language.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Grammar

[nothingtofalar]

Love isn't just for lovers. It's in friends, fleeting moments, family, the breeze, your favorite meal. Loving life in all its forms makes the heart lighter.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Jane Hirshfield

[philosophybits]

“We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will. […] Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.”

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[varsityqueerleadercaptain-deact]

don’t date anyone who doesn’t want to hear your favorite song, watch your favorite movie, read your favorite book

[weltenwellen]

Carl Phillips, from “Almost Tenderly”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

[justmyfuckingbrain]

Finché sei piccolo, pensi che crescere significhi aggiungere: l'autonomia, la macchina, i viaggi, le disponibilità, i soldi, gli amici, le esperienze.

Quando sei adulto, capisci che crescere è togliere.

Sfoltire, pulire, diminuire, stracciare, ramazzare, buttare emozioni che non ti stanno più, fare grossi sacchi di eventi troppo vecchi per essere ancora considerati, sbattere fuori dal corpo la coscienza più volte per non farla coprire di polvere e altra robaccia, cambiare aria alla testa e ancora togliere, togliere tutto quello che non ha motivo di prendere un posto, perché crescere vuol dire volere un ordine tranquillo e modesto e per averlo bisogna essere essenziali, comodi, senza fronzoli.

Crescere è qualcosa che pretende grandi spazi e non succede se hai un casino dappertutto.

[francisforever2014]

how it feels knowing that loneliness is still time spent with the world

[the-everlasting-l0ve]

[faustique]

i‘m grieving someone i considered my best friend, even though they never seemed to see me the same way

[philosophybits]

“Do what nature demands. Get a move on — if you have it in you — and don’t worry whether anyone will give you credit for it. And don’t go expecting Plato’s Republic; be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (9.29)

[priestboy]

⁺‧₊˚𓆩♱𓆪 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒎𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒈 𝒊𝒇 𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈˖༉‧₊˚🏰

[sixk0-braiin0]

I wanna crawl down your throat and build a little nest in your lungs so every breath you take keeps me alive