Philosophy

----------In Memory of Christina Grimmie--------- Clarke Horton - 29 - Agnostic - Philosopher - Platonic Aristocrat - Utopianist - ISTP: Virtuoso

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These bitches aren’t even worth a journal update anymore.

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Seems your heart is locked up

And I still get the combination wrong

- Sleep Token, The Love You Want

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I’ve already forgiven you and that is now the problem, because now I must actively remind myself why I needed to forgive you in the first place.

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It's my 14 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳 holy hell

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Recently I have been listening to ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ by Friedrich Nietzsche, to which I found myself nodding along, for the most part, until I reached somewhere in chapter 8, wherein I learned that Nietzsche does not have a particularly favorable opinion of women. In fact, I remember turning to my coworker and saying, “damn, Nietzsche hates women.” (I am not so elegant in speech as I am in text)

Learning this did trouble me and, sadly, was not the first time I read philosophers opinions not unlike Nietzsche‘s. It still baffles me that we would subscribe any limits to women in the world, as we would never subscribe any to men. I cannot understand why women would be subscribed limits via social construction, other than to say, perhaps, they are subscribed limits due to their biology. This, however, only serves to perplex me more, as I find women to have naturally higher potential in all things because, and necessarily in spite of, their biology. I find this to be true because philosophy has shown time and again that tragedy creates wisdom in one, and whom is more naturally weaved in tragedy then a woman, who must necessarily believe they are born with inherent tragedy in the form of menstruation, to name the biggest of many.

So, then, I propose that the issue of feminism is not so difficult, and I would even be hard pressed to consider it a philosophical undertaking to say so; unless we consider, as I often do, that philosophy is the art of common sense. All that to say, it is evident to me that women ought not to be doubted or brought down by feeble men or self-effacing women; for, in fact, women stand to press beyond where men naturally can. It is my greatest hope that women, too, take up the mantle of philosophy, for I believe that they represent unseen potential for humanity and philosophy alike.

[perfeqt]

“I’ve been hurt so bad and I still love so hard. I admire my heart for that.”

— Alexandra Elle, Words From A Wanderer

[perfectquote]

“No, you’re not wrong to expect a love that respects and values you for the person you are. You’re wrong to expect anything less.”

— Unknown

[philosophybits]

“Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.”

— Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason

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“Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916

[remanence-of-love]

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I think I’m done apologizing for things that weren’t even my fault.

[star-lighttss]

The broken will always be able to love harder than most. Once you've been in the dark, you learn to appreciate everything that shines.

[perfectquote]

“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.”

— Oscar Wilde

[philosophybits]

“The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer; as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral and metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it.”

— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”

— Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen

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