Z Philosophy

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What I wouldn’t give to return to my old problems.

@zach-zimmerman (via zach-zimmerman)

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The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Carl Sagan

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Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Arthur Miller, The Crucible

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I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

George Carlin

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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.

Richard Feynman

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I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Aristotle

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Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

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It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.

Albert Camus, The Stranger

[zach-zimmerman]

If you act like a tool, you mustn’t be surprised when you are used as such.

@zeezyzach (From my upcoming book)

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It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Epictetus

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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Alan W. Watts

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It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

W.C. Fields

[zach-zimmerman]

“When will you start trusting me?” she asked me once.

“That’s easy,” I replied. “When you stop lying.”

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The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

George Carlin