So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder…
Jostein Gaarder
Related i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la... PETER DAVID What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become king... PLATO You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contrib... GORDON B. HINCKLEY The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in ... GERHARD RICHTER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. It is not enough to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. ... GORDON B. HINCKLEY in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say ''thus it shall be!'', it is they who... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children. KELLI JAE BAELI I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The modeling world – and the world at large – is a pretty cruel place. It’s up to you to decid... ABBY ROSMARIN I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis... C.S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis... C. S. LEWIS And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Everything you do is connected to who you are as a person and, in turn, creates the person you are b... PAUL E. MILLER Your children should not have to act appropriately so that you can feel like a valuable person. It i... JEFF VANVONDEREN You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contrib... GORDON B. HINCKLEY Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their at... JAMES A. MURPHY When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you wi... YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other phil... WILLIAM JAMES Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. CRAIG GROESCHEL Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other ... WILLIAM JAMES The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it KARL MARX The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if ... KATHLEEN KENNEDY Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it KARL MARX Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants h... MARK HELPRIN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. Yo... ANDREA DWORKIN This plant represents what's happening inside of you. The world, like the soil, is cold and dark—l... SETH ADAM SMITH How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change i... KARL MARX The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change ... KARL MARX Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the t... GORE VIDAL Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... CRAIG GROESCHEL There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Show the world there's something to fight for. Your life is the proof that beauty can still be attai... LANA M. H. WILDER Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest gr... C.S. LEWIS Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances... CRAIG GROESCHEL Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI
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