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Philosophical Quotes
"Man is many things, but he is not rational."
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"Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness."
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
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"In your haste you walk far too fast. And in doing so you often leave your soul behind."
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"No one will live forever."
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"A paradox; the best opportunities we want are the best opportunities we miss; the best opportunities we wanted, are the best opportunities we missed and the best opportunities we seek for stay far away from us. In the end, we only settle for any opportunity. Life!"
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"Man need discomfort for awaken."
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"The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with fear, if all we have is what lies here, this lonely world, this troubled place, then cold dead stars and empty space...Well, I see no reason to persevere, no reason to laugh or shed a tear, no reason to sleep and none to wake/ No promises to keep and none to make. And so at night I still raise my eyes tos tudy the clear but mysterious skies that arch avove us, cold as stone. Are you there God? Are we alone?"
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"If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d's; delay, denial and disappointment."
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"To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes."
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"No one can foretell the details in a day, we can only hope."
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"The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime."
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"Hypocrisy, rejecting what you firmly have in your fist."
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"If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil's most brilliant move and science, God's."
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"The artist doesn't see things as they are but as he is."
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"It's a cycle... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs."
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"It is only when people don't know history well that they judge the present so blindly in ignorance!"
"No one is absolutely free from religion and philosophy, for the life we live is always under the influence of religion and philosophy!"
"Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work."
"Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the pursuits, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of our living. When you cripple the mind, you cripple the body, you cripple purpose and you cripple life."
"The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true."
"Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too."
"No two days are the same."
"All men must die. We are but death's instruments, not death himself."
"They that fail to recognize, take and and learn the lessons of discomfort well, meet the comforts of life and still live in discomfort."
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
"Even if the heavy cloud fails to bring heavy rainfall, it cools the atmosphere."
"Nothing is the truer than the Truth."
"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
"Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions."
"Notice the people you encounter in this life."
"The world of reality exists. The world of fantasy exists. The great boundary between the world of reality and the world of fantasy is the boundary of pleasure and fallacy. So many people enter into the world of realities through the the gate of betrayal and pain of the world of fantasies. If you live in the world of fantasies, ponder!If you live in the world of realities, learn and use your lessons."
"The real you is not you, the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you."
"He who don't know what envy can do shall always do what envy can do."
"Each new day, our minds grow older; the better or bitter daily lesson that makes our minds grow older is the matter!"
"No man his the master of his fate."
"The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing."
"Men behaves according to their beliefs."
"A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of strength and efficiency. When the body is in crises, the mind must not be and when the mind is in crises, the body must not be. Such is tenacity and nimbleness."
"It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things."
"Technology has given the dumb a tongue."
"We may have a better reflection of ourselves in the mirror depending on how thick the opaque substance behind it is; the lighter the substance, the poorer the image; the thicker the substance,the better the image."
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