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Quotes by Philosopher
"We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else."
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"The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised."
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"Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired."
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"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."
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"It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven. Narrow, exceedingly narrow is the way to perdition!"
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"Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd."
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"All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments."
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"Wisdom is the mind's currency."
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"What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?"
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"The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation, which holds between language and the world.To all of them the logical structure is common.(Like the two youths, their two horses and their lilies in the story. They are all in a certain sense one.)"
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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars."
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"A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed."
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"Wealth is relative. Some people aren't really rich, they just have poor neighbors."
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"As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like."
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"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."
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"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid."
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"The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all."
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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."
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"Dad?'What?' A small bird rises from a tree in front of us.'What should I be when I grow up?'The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. 'Honest,' I finally say."
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"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."
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"Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly."
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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."
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"The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct."
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"God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul."
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"When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do."
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"I went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery."
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"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."
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"Let us give Nature a chance, she knows her business better than we do."
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"Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements."
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"The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible."
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"Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten."
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"Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be."
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"Any seed that is planted by God bears fruit even before it touches the ground."
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"The soul is a great magician; transforming thoughts into reality, desires into actions, and life into experiences."
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"In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings."
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"In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist."
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"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
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"Happy is he who marries the woman he wants, happier is he who marries the woman he needs, and happiest is he who marries the woman he wants and needs."
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"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."
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"It is not the size of a seed, but the size of what rises from it."
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"Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
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"Short prayers with long legs travel far."
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"He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working."
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