A Handy Beginner’s Dictionary of Philosophy:
• Agency (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Art (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Consciousness (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Existence (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Identity (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Justice (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Knowledge (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Life (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Meaning (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Philosophy (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Truth (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Person (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Rationality (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Reality (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Self (n): unsure; meaning disputed
When I'm half asleep, I'll start to have complex thoughts and ideas that just sort of pop into my mind fully formed. They usually turn out to be incoherent when I reflect on them with a clearer head, but it always amazes me how my mind seems to form them out of nowhere.
“It will happen to all of us, that at some point you get tapped on the shoulder and told, not just that the party is over, but slightly worse: the party’s going on and you have to leave.”
— Christopher Hitchens
Ernest Hemingway // "Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use."
"Baudelaire introduziu a fisiologia na poesia; Nietzsche, na filosofia. Com
eles, as perturbações dos órgãos se elevaram a canto e a conceito. Proscritos da saúde, cabia a eles assegurar uma carreira à doença." - Emil Cioran