Posts Tagged "philosophy"
"But behold, when we thought we were arriving at the goal, a glance cast on the question itself has revealed to us suddenly that we are encompassed with nothingness."
— Sartre, Being and Nothingness(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
"People do have control over their lives because we hate the idea what we have none. But we only have control over our lives within the context in which we live, which is determined by a web of power relations, historical conditions, monetary situations, environmental situations, et cetera; within that constellation, we have power to act."
— My anthro prof. I clearly don’t go to class enough. When did anthropology turn into philosophy?"The mutual shaping of such things as genes and cultures and experiences in the context of society has produced something new, something that cannot be reduced to the materials used to construct it, that is, the human condition."
— My professor on the anthropological approach to philosophy."Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocating of the soul from here to another place."
— Socrates"Free will has a price of anxiety and despair."
— Rollo May, one of three chief leaders of humanist psychology; introduced European existentialism into North American psychology.
Truth.
(via s-devotchka)
Source: life-is-like-a-wineglass“From nothing, nothing comes.”
Unless, of course, we are greater than the sum of our parts.
"After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being — and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth."
— Carl Sagan
I have never read 1984. I must.
But I understand completely the idea of losing meaningful expression, I struggle with that every day.
(via therikeone)
Source: nevver
I approve of whoever decided to make this.
Thinking about this some more.
I didn’t notice “Tom” in there the first time. Tom wasn’t a horcrux, obviously. It means that only 0.7% of Voldemort’s soul was left in himself.
But that also means Harry had twice as much of Voldemort’s soul than Voldemort himself.
That is really creepy.
Is it still “your” soul if you possess less of it than somebody else? I wonder what that must feel like to Harry, having more of the darkest wizard of all time’s soul than the dark wizard himself.
D.Rad was once attributed to saying “What’s great about the books and the films is that good and evil aren’t simply split between two people, Harry and Voldemort. There’s evil within the good characters as well. And in some cases…people we have always seen as evil show how much good they have in them.” And while that can’t be directly proven since people on the internet don’t care much for sourcing things, it’s still interesting to consider in this context.
How strange, the hero having the villain’s evil soul.
This leads to so many questions.
(via silversouled)
Source: thingsihavenoplacefor