Life won't let you get comfortable. I've been thinking. My philosophy on life seems to be a synthesis of ideas gained from Frank Herbert, Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Shakespeare.
Frank Herbert:
"It is the pressures of life that shape who you are. Intentions mean nothing, your actions define you. Self-control is the path to ultimate power. There is no telling the limits of the human mind."
"When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom."
"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror."
Kurt Vonnegut:
"We are here to fart around, don't let anyone try to tell you different. Life is chaotic and beautiful, laugh when you can, love when you can, create as often as possible."
"Anyone who believes in telepathy raise my hand"
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
Isaac Asimov:
"There is no telling the limits of the human mind, even when you think you've accounted for all variables. One anomaly can disrupt whole systems. Control is never absolute. God created humans in his image, humans can create something better. Sometimes it is necessary to make the ultimate sacrifice avoid the ultimate sacrifice. Cognitive dissonance usually means you've come across a very important and valuable idea."
"Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly."
Robert Heinlein:
"Understanding is the key to love, and love is unabashedly innocent…naïve, it has to be. There is no force as attractive as the purity of thoughtless, unquestioning love."
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
"I will accept the rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
Shakespeare:
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in your philosophies."
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