Philosophy Quote by Nenia Campbell — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.”

“Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.”

“All statistics have outliers.”

“What do you want to do with your life, then?” is often the question I'm asked.”

“When your whole foundation fractured well past the point of repair, all you could do was glue the pathetic, jagged shards of your life back together and try not to bleed on them.”

“Fairytales by nature only talk about the victors. The survivors. Nobody speaks about what happens to those who failed, except in the abstract: as cautionary tales to guide others onto the path to success. How many brave knights fell to the dragon before he was slayed by the noble prince? How many children burned to a crisp and eaten before the wicked witch received her due? These stories are lost, but the lesson behind them is not: it is not enough to be merely pure and good.”

“Don't hate the media; become the media.”

“Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.”

“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”

“If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.”

“A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.”

“Mad are the mortals who poison the river that quenches their thirst and yet hope to live.”