Philosophy and Wisdom

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ Our free will is in direct relation with our intelligence. The more intelligent one is, the more one is able to see options. Intelligence gives rise to options, and options give us the impression of free will. The wiser one is, the freer he becomes. @philosophy5

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ In order to have peace of mind, we should not allow people and events influence our thoughts. We need to train ourselves to avoid any unnecessary reactions towards incidents.

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly. (Voltaire) برداشتی آزاد از سخن ولتر: ملایمت در مواجهه ی با زندگی، لازمه شاد زیستن است.

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ Every man is an actor of his own ideals. (Frederick Nietzsche) @philosophy5

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. (Hannah Arendt)

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. (Mark Twain)

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ Prejudices are what fools use for reason. (Voltaire)

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. (Mark Twain)

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me, or else that I needn't live that much longer. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)

⚪️ ⚪️ We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win. (Edward Gibbon) @philosophy5

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.  (Oscar Wilde, De Profundis)

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else. (Dalai Lama)