Tim Tcsgrv

"Vive Bene, Spesso L'Amore, Di Risata Molto"

[kylebonallo]

Iona by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

[philosophybits]

“The dealers in the bodies of men erect their stand in the presence of the pulpit, and they mutually help each other. The dealer gives his blood-stained gold to support the pulpit, and the pulpit, in return, covers his infernal business with the garb of Christianity. Here we have religion and robbery the allies of each other — devils dressed in angels’ robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise.”

— Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

[atheist-freethinker]

[philosophybits]

“The theories about progress and the “genius which always pierces through”, arise from the fact that it is intolerable to suppose that what is most precious in the world should be given over to chance. It is because it is intolerable that it ought to be contemplated. Creation is this very thing. The only good which is not subject to chance is that which is outside the world.”

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[philosophybits]

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (1822–1863)

[philosophybits]

“Things have their seasons, and even certain kinds of eminence go in and out of style. But wisdom has an advantage: she is eternal. If this is not her century, many others will be.”

— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.”

— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

[philosophybits]

“The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways, but without materials from the external world it is powerless.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

[philosophybits]

“It is only up to a certain point that possessions make men more independent and free; one step further — and the possessions become master, the possessor becomes a slave: as which he must sacrifice to them his time and his thoughts and henceforth feel himself obligated to a society, nailed to a place and incorporated into a state none of which perhaps meets his inner and essential needs.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, 317

[philosophybits]

“Things pass for what they seem, not for what they are. Only rarely do people look into them, and many are satisfied with appearances.”

— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

[philosophybits]

“Look deep inside. Things are seldom what they seem, and ignorance, which sees no deeper than the bark, often turns to disillusion when it penetrates into things.”

— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

[philosophybits]

“We often get stuck on that which does not exist. And, in so doing, we cease to exist ourselves.”

— Merab Mamardashvili, Aesthetics of Thinking

[tcsgrv]

Some may think me odd, yet I know music. It is the one thing that makes me humble.

[philosophybits]

“Even that part of our knowledge which is logically independent of experience is yet elicited and caused by experience.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

[tcsgrv]

The finest journeys are those taken through realms that are untouched.

[tcsgrv]

Happiest of Winter Solstice celebrations to all friends and families of the Cosgroves. Sláinte Mhaith and HS folks. We shall be raising our glasses of whiskey to you all. Cheers.

[thunderstruck9]

Arthur Melville (British, 1855-1904), Kirkwall Fair, 1885. Watercolour, 20 7/8 x 14 9/16 in.