“The idea of good and evil has nothing to do with religion or a mystic conscience. It is a natural need of animal races. And when founders of religions, philosophers, and moralists tell us of divine or metaphysical entities, they are only recasting what each ant, each sparrow practices in its little society. Is this useful to society? Then it is good. Is this hurtful? Then it is bad.”
— Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Morality
"Hell is other people"
-Jean Paul Sartre, in No Exit, a 1994 existentialist French play
These almost never look like the post edits. This is all a sham.
Canon m50, f5.6 15-45mm
Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.
Emery Allen (via sunsetquotes)
lol what
1987
"A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison."
-Simone De Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
This book is trippy
Canon m50, 15-45mm f5.6
“The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.” ―Andre Breton
hidden place by Amber Ortolano
"Let's keep our insides on the inside."
-Yennefer of Vengerberg from The Witcher S2E7
This line had my brain tickled.
Canon m50, f4.0 15-45mm
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
— Bertrand Russell (via knittingandphilosophy)
“The universe may forget us, but our light will brighten the darkness for eons after we’ve departed this world. The universe may forget us, but it can’t forget us until we’re gone, and we’re still here, our futures still unwritten. We can choose to sit on our asses and wait for the end, or we can live right now. We can march to the edge of the void and scream in defiance. Yell out for all to hear that we do matter. That we are still here, living our absurd bullshit lives, and nothing can take that away from us. Not rogue comets, not black holes, not the heat death of the universe. We may not get to choose how we die, but we can choose how we live. The universe may forget us, but it doesn’t matter. Because we are the ants, and we’ll keep marching on.”
— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants