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Quotes by Philosopher
"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."
68
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."
68
"The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them."
68
"An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists - or that He doesn't."
68
"I may not amount to much but at least I am unique."
68
"One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior."
68
"If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you."
67
"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
67
"When a storm shows up, always remind yourself a rainbow is hiding behind it."
67
"A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty."
67
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
67
"Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen."
67
"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
67
"We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking."
67
"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
67
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
67
"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."
67
"Fate is not in man but around him."
67
"We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide."
67
"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important."
67
"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."
67
"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness."
67
"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."
67
"Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."
67
"When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being."
67
"Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them. And the minority that do understand continue to be Moslems because they have redefined their morality and ethics to fit within the teachings of Islam, which are floridly lacking in morality. They therefore redefine what is good and evil in order to fit their lives into what is preached by Islam, instead of examining Islam to see if it fits within the good life. Backwards thinking, imposed by a backward religion."
67
"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us."
67
"What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites."
67
"Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life " and being successful."
67
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."
67
"Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way."
66
"There are no clear borders, Only merging invisible to the sight."
66
"Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana."
66
"And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught."
66
"It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill."
66
"Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation."
66
"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
66
"Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans."
66
"We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it."
66
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