Philosophy Bits

philosophybits:

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!”

— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Proust gave an allergic account of what was about to befall all love. The exchange relationship that love partially withstood throughout the bourgeois age has completely absorbed it; the last immediacy falls victim to the distance of all the contracting parties from all others. Love is chilled by the value that the ego places on itself. Loving at all seems to it like loving mor...

philosophybits:

“It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.”

— Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

thirdity:

“The world of appearances is complicated, and language has only verbalized a minuscule part of its potential, indefatigable combinations.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, “Verbiage for Poems”