[b]Philosophy Tweets
“Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.” Ayn Rand[/b]
Of course, recall the fate of those who dared to choose other than as she did.
“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.” Ayn Rand
Talk about an intellectual contraption! Though, sure, that’s the reality alright. But: her reality or yours?
“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.” Jose Ortega y Gasset
My guess: An enormously complex, problematic coalition and collision of both.
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.” Victor Hugo
My guess: An enormously complex, problematic coalition and collision of both.
“We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton’s intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence.” Voltaire
Hmm, where do you suppose he is going with this?
"Historians are not by and large inclined to supernatural explanations, but they are addicted to a near equivalent - ‘inevitability’.” Eric Ives
So long as it doesn’t repeat itself.