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Quotes by Philosopher
"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man."
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"Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father."
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"There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers."
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"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
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"Keep Inspiring everyday, because when you retire, you will lose desire, become tired, and expire."
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"Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live."
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"And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth."
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"If there are any persons who contest a received opinion,or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thankthem for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoicethat there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought,if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality ofour convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves."
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"I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind."
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"A wolf's thoughts are seldom far from its appetite."
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"Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination."
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"We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice."
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"All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!"
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"Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food."
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"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."
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"How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight."
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"The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power."
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"A well paid word deceives them. And what kind of a word is a word that has a price, high or low, which is adjusted to the price of fame, and how, long ago, when it was little appreciated, was it more valuable than it is today with a big price?"
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"The wise warrior avoids the battle."
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"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."
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"If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic."
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"The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism."
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"Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper."
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"The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much."
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"It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself."
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"The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told."
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"Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future."
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"Having less worries is what allows me to talk to beggars in the street or tell jokes at waitresses and try to make them smile. I couldn't do that before, when I had a job and was always worried about money."
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"There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul."
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"Be loving towards yourself, then you will be able to love others too."
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"If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!"
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"Those who know you see your tears even in the rain."
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"Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
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"Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!"
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"The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking."
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"When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself."
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"So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in."
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"The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people who have the opposite bias, and cultivating a readiness to discard any hypothesis which has proved inadequate."
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"Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!"
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"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."
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"Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood."
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"However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end!"
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"Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."
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"Never set fire to a bridge while you are still crossing it."
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"The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity."
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"Petronius says that 'Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.' That is very true, otherwise there wouldn't exist any religion!"
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