#my favorite philosopher

[performing-personhood]

#terry pratchett #good quotes #a wise man once said #my favorite philosopher #was technically a fiction novelist #but like #same same

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

vampires are obligate carnivores stop diet shaming them

#although actually this once again brings up my favorite philosophical talking point: is a blood-based diet vegetarian?

[decaffeinatedcrack]

Who's your favorite philosopher of the enlightenment? Locke? Voltaire? Rousseau? WRONG.

Diderot is the greatest philosopher of the enlightenment because he was the only one who did shit.

Voltaire was all bark no bite, Locke had his head so far up his optimistic ass that he couldn't have implemented any of his ideas if he tried, and Rousseau was Rousseau.

All of the enlightened philosophers believed in and advocated for equal education yet Diderot was the only person to actually provide it.

With his Encyclopedia he managed to distribute knowledge regardless of social class. It started out only for the rich but with modified versions, thinner paper and less pictures, he was able to make it cheaper and available to all. It became a household item that could teach people anything they needed to know.

Was it free schooling? No. But, as a commoner, it was both the most he could do and the biggest step towards indiscrimant education that any philosopher had ever taken.

Diderot is THE best philosopher of the enlightenment, period.

#thank you for coming to this ted talk #and this is obvi my opinion #there are no correct answers #but there is a wrong one and that's Rousseau #If your FAVORITE enlightenment philosopher is Rousseau then get help #denis diderot #voltaire #john locke #montesquieu #forgot to mention him #jean Jaques Rousseau #the enlightenment

[hylaversicolor]

peace of mind was not meant for me

#scribble #mgs #the boss #the sorrow #sigint #big boss #anyway hm #thinking about joy being absolutely batshit in her 20s getting her entire family taken away by the philosophers and declaring her revenge #IGNORE THE FACT THAT I GOT THE NOTHING LEFT INSIDE ME QUOTE WRONG. #my favorite quote in the entire series. and i misremembered it #: D #in my defense usually by the time i get to that quote i am sobbing too uncontrollably to pay ATTENTION to waht is going on #ok i'm going to stop retroactively adding tags to this lol

[tea-cat-arts]

I miss this Honkai Impact

#honkai impact #what happened to the case for love? what happened to their case for mercy? #himeko would fist fight that philosopher who kept saying others must fail for someone else to succeed #himeko murata #in case some of y’all thought Kevin was my favorite Honkai characters- no it’s 100% still Himeko #with Su maybe tied with her #maybe #god I miss that queen

[automatonknight]

id: a digital drawing of a blue engineer and walenty-an original character. walenty is pale, has long, black hair with horns, a tail and claws. he's wearing square glasses, fingerless gloves, a green, floral shirt over a black tank top and black shorts and shoes. kit is holding a fishing rod in kits right hand. engineer is wearing his hardhat and goggles, a blue shirt, dark blue overalls and brown boots. he also has a fishing rod swung over his shoulder. he and walenty are walking next to eachother, with walenty on the left and engie on the right. the background shows a pine forest. end id

#looks around. hi #art #fanart #dst oc #not superrrr happy with it but hey! it's something. or whatever #walenty also looks like that one philosopher image. having a deep conversation about constant's fish #i sketched this like. fucking ages ago when i first played that one REALLY fucking nice engie character mod i love it so much. i really wan #to draw his roseate skin sometimes too..... #actually let me check it out who made it #<goat slice! very nice mod. i'd say for someone more advanced if you wanna build the buildings and stuff but i fucking. suck at this game #and i was doing just fine so idk.+who cares about skill level. looks its my favorite guy from video game in another video game i like! yay! #^incomprehensible fucking tags sorry. bleeehh #ok bye. i might draw something with walenty and scout later though #ALSO. to that one anon who sent me an ask saying that a walenty and engie fishing trip would be cool....i love you forever from my heart

[arthurian-owls]

Digger

Soren: Digger, why do you ask these questions? They're impossible to answer.

Digger: Maybe that's why I ask them—because they are impossible to answer.

#digger #guardians of gahoole #gahoole #ga'hoole #guardians of ga'hoole #digger gahoole #ohh my favorite philosophical owl friend #moodboard

[nonbinarylesbianskout]

Yeah, having a bit of a moment over here.

#nomad of nowhere #skout non #toth non #melinda non #fullmetal alchemist AU #don't think too hard into this it's like half Brotherhood and half what actually happened in NoN #Y'dalan nomad was my favorite theory back in the day and i had to pay homage <3 #Melinda fans please come get your food #I feel like making Toth take Ling's role is a controversial decision when Scar is right there. but i think it's more in character at least- #for her in season 1 #yes melinda dead again and 100 years later another dumbass made the same mistake #Skout tried to bring back her mom and got off pretty damn easy in comparison #Skout is actually NOT trying to get her old body back. only nomad's #but the king here. while in Bradley's role is more like what we know in NoN but the crown in a philosopher's stone #just. you have to trust me here even though this is a mess #gave melinda and skout braids because of Ed but i didn't want to mess with Melinda's design too much

[howifeltabouthim]

She held him secretly, possessively, in her heart with such a strength of passion that at times it was hard to believe that he was a separate person with other concerns who knew and cared nothing about how she felt.

Iris Murdoch, from The Philosopher’s Pupil

#secret love #unrequited love #possessive #parasocial relationships #passionate #out of touch with reality #delusional #we are one #intertwined #inspo #epigraph #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #my favorite line #iris murdoch #the philosopher's pupil

[yellowocaballero]

i’ve typed and re-typed this paragraph in my head several times but. just. i am at a complete loss with how i should say anything. your writing is compelling and genuinely cried (when i thought i’d never relearn crying again). on a slightly more articulate note - i love your sylvain. so principled to the end. kudos in the truest sense of the word.

Thank you so much this is so extremely sweet!! ;-; The story really hit at some personal topics for me too...everything I write does, but in a few chapters it'll be most obvious.

Having feelings really is the worst thing in the world. I'm the type of person who's tried many times in in the past to carve out my heart. You have to be a little jealous of Byleth - of her own little world where nothing hurts, where sadness and pain and loneliness cannot penetrate. She can't love, but she can't feel the pain of a broken heart. There's far more pain than joy in the world, so it really seems like she has the better end of the deal. But I think the only way to survive is to be saved, and you have to save others before you can be saved yourself. And in order to save others you have to live in everybody else's world too, where pain and heartbreak is inevitable. It's like forcing yourself to place a hand on a hot stove, and to do it again and again no matter how often it hurts, but doing otherwise means you aren't living at all. You're not saving yourself or anybody else. We only have one life, and I'd rather live it.

Byleth's a fictional character. She can live 20 years without emotions, but we can't. Any attempt to carve out your heart will ultimately be unsuccessful, because we'll always reach back out to touch that stove again. So long as there's a billion assholes out there like me making very small and stupid little attempts to save people, I think we can't lose the ability to cry - I mean, you reached back, didn't you?

UM I HAVE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT SYLAIN BUT THIS POST IS ALREADY STUPID...I don't make it obvious but Sylvain is low-key my favorite character, up there with Felix. Like Felix, he does bad things for self-centered reasons. All I'll say right here is that Sylvain is the only one of the childhood friends who fully understands that Dimitri is a prince, and that as a big brother figure he is caught in a bad crossroads of protecting Dimitri and protecting others from Dimitri. Thanks for reading!!

#im not talking jesus saves im talking bodhisattva saving. btw. #sorry im watching in stars and time and it's making me MAD philosophical lmfaoooo #taps microphone play the world ends with you and read omniscent reader's viewpoint uhhh that's all #also be an extravert who loves people but whose Been Through It #my asks #my writing #theres a lot of reasons why sylvain is the favorite that i won't go into #but he actually fully understands how the world works and he is the only fucking one #(his biggest limitation is being a guy i think. dorothea voice.) #(also being rich. yuri voice.) #and he's an extremely kind and loving person who is also so so so bitter #im looking forward to posting the cat byleth story cuz a lot of the emotional heart is about sylvain and his son #legend of korra had it right. sometimes your blorbos are shitty fucking parents.

[5eraphim]

im so tired of celebrity x fast food collabs. i want these promos to feature fictional characters, but like, more specifically i want to see idk KFC or smthn run a “Flowers in the Attic/Cathy Dollanganger” meal promo;

cold fried chicken with coagulated grease, room temperature potato salad, a cup of lukewarm, slightly sour whole milk and a suspiciously bitter powdered doughnut for dessert.

thats the one i would personally vouch for. 

#flowers in the attic was far and away my favorite book growing up #i read it when i was 10 and was changed forever #i know its controversial but its so fucking important and beloved and philosophical to me #its not for everyone and the sequels are very unnecessary (except for petals on the wind IMO) #but nothing touches the original for me #flowers in the attic #vc andrews #southern gothic

[smolcrow465]

kari hearing gatomon and wizardmon trauma dump to each other in front of her on the balcony

#digimon #kari kamiya #hikari yagami #literally what is her name :sob: why did they change it like that #gatomon #tailmon #wizardmon #wizarmon #digimon adventure #crow caws #look ive been sick in bed watching the myotismon arc bc its my favorite #& the scene where wiz is reassuring gatomon in front of kari was Literally this pic #girl is like. 8 or whatever & the digis are getting all philosophical its great #i love them sm #uh. #snapcube #for filtering <3

[crismakesstuff]

Realizing that some of my favorite pieces of media are intrinsically about humanity

The best and the worst of it. How someone can find it after having lost it for so long, or lose it only to regret it and try to find themselves once again. About how you can be human and become so far gone that you lose everything including yourself in the process. About how good can and always will overpower evil no matter what. About characters who sometimes aren’t even human having more humanity than others or about teaching them the beauty of humanity.

About how no matter how much evil there may be in the world human love and kindness can and will always find a way.

We’re all capable of humanity and isn’t that just beautiful?

#didn’t mean to get philosophical but idk I was just thinking about it #bc my favorite media is at its core about humanity #here’s a few: #invincible show #the last of us #avatar the last airbender #chainsaw man #infinity train #the owl house #there’s more I’ll add but I love all of these so much #batman the animated series

[teekays]

if i were data minded (im not) i would do a hockey fan bodily fluids ranking survey. surely we're all sweat and blood enjoyers but let's really get into it. where are my girlies who eroticize throwing up

#back in 2020 my friends and i made and frequently updated rankings of our favorite bodily fluids #and would discuss the merits of all of them like philosophers on the twitter tl #and i miss that. we're not discussing fluids enough anymore #piss nation. we're up #teddyposting

[softichill]

That one vine

#Cricket doodles #Gijinka #Cookie Run #Vampire cookie #Drinking #Tw drinking #Love that his favorite pastime is thinking about life and philosophical questions. Me too my guy

[loveaetingkids]

Fiddler's Green:I’m boring you.

Rose:Not at all.

Fiddler's Green:Oh,good.Because I do love a paradox-

Rose,a second later:

#the way she was instantly knocked out by his philosophical infodumping is my favorite part of the series #sandman #the sandman #sandman 2022 #rose walker #fiddler’s green #movie analysis