And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.
Elizabeth Strout, The Burgess Boys (via quotespile)
23/m/WA/Secular Humanist / h8r / Porn Enthusiast
And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.
“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”
— Emmanuel Torres, Shapes of Silence
(via books-n-quotes)
“The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.”
— Karl Jaspers, The Idea of the University
I hope yours ends differently, but I doubt it will.
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
‘far from celebrating engaged struggle, Hegel’s point is’ ‘that every embattled’ ‘taking of sides, has to rely on a necessary illusion’ ‘that, once the enemy is annihilated, I will achieve the full realization of my being’
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life.