top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Philosopher
"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing."
28
"The wicked ones make us better persons for those that deserve our attention. Nothing is really lost and wasted in this alchemical dance of life."
28
"The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated."
28
"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
28
"The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources."
28
"The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss."
28
"I can catch demons but people cry when I do that. And then I'm blamed for trying to control them. How convenient that the excuse of someone trapped in hell is that I'm manipulating her into getting out of it. That's how they see help, as an attack that must be defended at all cost. They can't see that their soul is in the hands of Satan already. He is the one instigating their fears and anger, as if they were just a puppet. They can't see that I pay a very heavy emotional, mental and physical price, every time I try to rescue one of the trapped souls, every time I love someone that doesn't know what love is anymore."
28
"The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it's the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know."
28
"You look at these mountains now, and they look so permanent and peaceful, but they're changing all the time and the changes aren't always peaceful. Underneath us, beneath us here right now, there are forces that can tear this whole mountain apart."
28
"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
27
"What is awakening? Awakening is the cessation of self-deception! Religion is self-deception; fate is self-deception; the idea that there is no death but only continuation is a self-deception! Real awakening is to acquire a scientific mind, it is to meet face to face with the bare realities, and it is to leave the spiritual fallacies and fantasies! And this is real awakening!"
27
"The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself."
27
"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."
27
"I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself."
27
"Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything."
27
"To achieve a great success, you must first have yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter!"
27
"Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is."
27
"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."
27
"The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. Music is a delight because of its rhythm and flow. Yet the moment you arrest the flow and prolong a chord or note beyond its time, the rhythm is destroyed. Because life is a flowing process, change and death are its necessary parts. To work for their exclusion is to work against life."
27
"Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none."
27
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
27
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."
27
"The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity."
27
"No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician."
27
"I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work."
27
"But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind."
27
"Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations."
27
"To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe."
27
"Any human being should be capable of three things to earn such title: live alone, hunt and drive anything with or without wheels. If you don't have these three things, you're either a slave or an animal. Any idea about being social or human has been cleverly associated with these two things, in order to make believe that being a social animal is the ideal to aspire for, especially if such animal is enslaved by a certain amount of ideals promoted by the system that gives him life and cuts it off as soon as he shows himself undeserving."
27
"Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law."
Law,
27
"A diamond does not lose its value because it is covered in mud."
27
"And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization."
27
"There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with."
27
"It is comic that a mentally disordered man picks up any piece of granite and carries it around because he thinks it is money, and in the same way it is comic that Don Juan has 1,003 mistresses, for the number simply indicates that they have no value. Therefore, one should stay within one's means in the use of the word "love"."
27
"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."
27
"The great soul surrenders itself to fate."
27
"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
27
"Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost."
27
"Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie."
27
"No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them."
27
"We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the sea where even the trails become thoughtful."
27
"You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain feeling of security and well-being. Then she turns away from you; she gets bored or goes off with someone else, and your whole emotional balance is destroyed, and this disturbance, which you don't like, is called jealousy. There is pain in it, anxiety, hate and violence. So what you are really saying is, 'As long as you belong to me I love you but the moment you don't I begin to hate you."
27
"The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion."
27
"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines."
27
"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."
27
"Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent."
27
bottom of page