Stoic Teacher

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human. ~ André Comte-Sponville, Presentations de La Philosophie ✒️

Omnia vincit amor" - "Love conquers all ~ Virgil ✒️

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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. ~ Alain Badiou, Metapolitics ✒️

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. ~ Woodrow Wilson ✒️

The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite tendency towards awareness. This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time. ~ Terry Pratchett, Soul Music ✒️

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it. ~ E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks ✒️

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life. ~ Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram ✒️

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable ~ what it is or what it means can never be said. ✒️

Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such a role, the historical male reputation is quite balanced. For all of their perceived wrongs, over centuries they've moved entire civilizations forward, nurtured the human quest for discovery and industry, and led humankind from inconvenient darkness to convenient modernity. Navigating the chessboard that is human existence is quite a feat, yet one rarely acknowledged in modern academia or media. And yet for those monumental achievements, I love and admire the balanced creation that is man for all his strengths and weaknesses, his gifts and his curses. I would venture to say that most wise women do. ~ Tiffany Madison ✒️