Philosophy Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.”

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”

“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”

“If love knows no race, yet salvation is illustrated in white, then either God was monopolized, or the ink of scripture was tainted before it dried.”

“Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.”

“Steve's throat swelled with tension as the intimacy of the moment became more tangible. He moved his eyes from the dark, reflective river, to the dark, reflective pupils in Diane's eyes. They seemed to quiver with tenderness - but then they would grow distant. He found himself continually surprised at the "aliveness" of the person standing just a foot away from him now. She wasn't inanimate: she would flinch if he pinched her, and answer if he asked her. And she was beautiful." -- From "The Grand Unified Story" -- a short story in Zack Love's Stories and Scripts: an Anthology”

“He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.”

“The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason.”