Philosophy Quote by Lawrence Nault — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The greatest revolutions begin in whispers of possibility.”

“Not everything buried is meant to stay hidden. Some truths wait for the right hands to lift them back into the light.”

“The future will not be inherited. It must be protected, reshaped, and loved into being.”

“Rebellion is not always loud. Sometimes it’s the quiet refusal to give up on tenderness.”

“To walk among trees is to walk among elders who speak without sound.”

“Silence can be complicity, or it can be the soil where action grows.”

“If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.”

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”

“O principal é não mentir. Quem mente para si mesmo e dá ouvido à sua própria mentira chega a tal extremo que não consegue ver nenhuma verdade em si ou naqueles que o rodeiam e, por conseguinte, perde completamente o respeito por si e pelos outros. (...) Quem mente a si próprio pode ser o primeiro a ofender-se. Às vezes, é tão agradável uma pessoa se ofender, não é verdade? O indivíduo sabe que ninguém o injuriou, que tudo não passa de simples invenção, que ele próprio mentiu e exagerou apenas para criar um quadro, para fazer de um grão uma montanha - sabe tudo e, no entanto, se ofende. Ofende-se a ponto se sentir prazer na ofensa e, desse modo, atinge o verdadeiro ódio...”