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Quotes by Philosopher
"Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow."
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"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."
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"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."
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"Psychology is the science of mental life."
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"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."
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"People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it."
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"The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute."
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"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
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"A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch."
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"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."
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"Solitude has seven skins, nothing gets through any more."
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"No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so."
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"And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles.Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees."
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"Timeless wisdom brings timeless blessings."
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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"Religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism."
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"You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will."
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"Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future."
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"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
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"Asita had been raised on this knowledge. He knew also that all these planes merged into each other like wet dyed cloths hung too close on the line, the blue bleeding into the red, the red into the saffron yellow. Lokas were apart and together at the same time. Demons could move among humans, and often did. The re-verse, a mortal visiting the demon loka, was much rarer."
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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
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"Love's cruel notion. - Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killingthe object of that love, so that he may be removed once and for all fromthe wicked game of change: for love dreads change more than it doesdestruction."
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"You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not."
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"Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves."
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"You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood."
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"Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness."
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"In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth."
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"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."
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"But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One."
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"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
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"When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is already done for us. This is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid."
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"Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously."
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"The greatest mountain is still made of grains of sand."
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"Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science."
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"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."
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"A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house."
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"It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved."
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"God operates in levels. First He changes your life to help you see opportunities, and you can't appreciate it. Then He sends you people that can help you, and you refuse to trust them. Then, He boosts your vitality, so that you might still be able to do something for yourself, but you conform to your lifestyle and habits. Then, He ignores you, until you realize, through your own suffering, that you've offended Him in all these ways."
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"The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope?"
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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
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"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."
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"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."
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