"The science of love is the philosophy of the heart"

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Philosophy Quotes #Heart Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“Mundus vult decipi'â€”the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?”
“It may have hastened the move of the former Minority Leader Trent Lott, to the private sector because there was such an outpouring of bitter criticism...The result, if this is successful, will not be much different from what Sen. Lott and others were trying to enact back then...It may be that we are all just older and wiser.”

Source : "Senate GOP raises eyebrows at Gang of Eight plan". www.politico.com.
“The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.”

Source : Hugh Miller (1870). “The Headship of Christ: And, The Rights of the Christian People : a Collection of Essays, Historical and Descriptive Sketches, and Personal Portraitures with the Author's Celebrated Letter to Lord Brougham”, p.354
“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2014). “Ruin and Rising”, p.234, Macmillan
“Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. Theyâ€™re a sign of FRUSTRATION. Sheâ€™s only crying so she wonâ€™t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.”
“Everything Jumpy could do [in Valley of Violence] was too much. If I put it in the movie you would all check out. When he wraps himself up in the blanket, that's as far as I could go, and that's not even close. The dog's amazing.”
“With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.”

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