J Robert Parkey MD

Geriatric and palliative physician. Amateur poet. Fixing when I can but still walking with folks when I can’t. Period.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

[Philosophy Muse @philosophy_muse]

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. Montaigne

[Philosophy Muse @philosophy_muse]

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Kant

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.”
#Solzhenitsyn

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

[Philosophy On Ice @PhilosophyOI]

"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Philosophy Muse @philosophy_muse]

Honesty is difficult. It is easier to hide in the crowd and to drown one's own guilt in that of the human race. Kierkegaard

[The Quote @thequote]

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. - M. H. Alderson

[Philosophy Muse @philosophy_muse]

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Nietzsche

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

We all avoid the painful moments but it's in the painful moments where our true growth is found.

[The Quote @thequote]

It's your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. - Rumi

[Philosophy Muse @philosophy_muse]

If you wish to be a writer, write. Epictus

[J Robert Parkey MD @BowTieDoc_JRP]

@PhilosophyOI Try to be less of a jackass than I was yesterday

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

CUT THE CRAP

Literally, cut the unnecessary distractions out of your life — delete apps, unfriend and unfollow toxic people, stop committing to activities you don't care about. Life is too short.

[Simon Sinek @simonsinek]

Change comes from telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

[Philosophy On Ice @PhilosophyOI]

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Philosophy Muse @philosophy_muse]

Disputes multiply as if everything is uncertain, and are managed as if everything is certain. David Hume

[Philosophy Muse @philosophy_muse]

"Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?"