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“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”

— Bertrand Russell (via knittingandphilosophy)

Anyone who fights with monsters should take care that he does not in the process become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music"

-Friedrich Nitzsche

Galileo and the Empirical Technique

Decasia : The State of Decay - Bill Morrison - 2002 (67min)

“The universe may forget us, but our light will brighten the darkness for eons after we’ve departed this world. The universe may forget us, but it can’t forget us until we’re gone, and we’re still here, our futures still unwritten. We can choose to sit on our asses and wait for the end, or we can live right now. We can march to the edge of the void and scream in defiance. Yell out for all to hear that we do matter. That we are still here, living our absurd bullshit lives, and nothing can take that away from us. Not rogue comets, not black holes, not the heat death of the universe. We may not get to choose how we die, but we can choose how we live. The universe may forget us, but it doesn’t matter. Because we are the ants, and we’ll keep marching on.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.

Emery Allen (via sunsetquotes)

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let’s take a trip

“The idea of good and evil has nothing to do with religion or a mystic conscience. It is a natural need of animal races. And when founders of religions, philosophers, and moralists tell us of divine or metaphysical entities, they are only recasting what each ant, each sparrow practices in its little society. Is this useful to society? Then it is good. Is this hurtful? Then it is bad.”

— Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Morality

“All definite knowledge—so I should contend—belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man’s Land, exposed to attack by both sides; this No Man’s Land is philosophy.”

— Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices.

Bertrand Russell, The ABC of Relativity (via philosophybits)

This isn’t anything anyone can’t logically deduce, Russell must’ve been a lonely man. 

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