Aliciaavram

“The first thing to realize, if you wish to become a philosopher, is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man’s world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with another man’s, so that they cannot both be right. People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Art of Philosophizing

“our work should equip the next generation of women to outdo us in every field this is the legacy we’ll leave.”

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”

— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”

— Albert Camus

Arendellians when Elsa started singing Into the Unknown

My vid. Someone else posted it on here before me but oh well 😆

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.”

— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via books-n-quotes)