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Quotes by Philosopher
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"
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"Doing what others have done is skill. Dong what few have done is talent. Doing what none have done is genius. Going where others have gone is competence. Going where few have gone is excellence. Going where none have gone is transcendence."
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"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend."
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"Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities."
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"England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours."
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"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."
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"If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure. In America men often work long hours even when they are well off; such men, naturally, are indignant at the idea of leisure for wage-earners, except as the grim punishment of unemployment; in fact, they dislike leisure even for their sons."
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"When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of. Nothing is left but to love."
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"God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected."
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"Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!"
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"Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain."
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."
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"At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards."
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"We can't avoid reasoning, we can only avoid doing it well."
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"Saying 'I'm sorry' earns you my attention, proving you're sorry earns you my heart."
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"Half a brain is better than none."
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"One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth."
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"Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood."
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"There is do much sttuborn hope in a human heart."
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"It's easier to conceal wisdom than folly."
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"If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God."
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"Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead."
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"Books have more useful things to say than fools."
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"America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce."
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"There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!"
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"Thorns do not keep a rose from blooming, neither should obstacles keep you from success."
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"Great fish do not swim in small rivers."
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"Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself."
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"There is no honour in exploiting people and there is also no honour in exploiting animals! Using people or using animals for our own interests is nothing but an arrogant immorality!"
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"It is only in alert silence that truth can be."
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"There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work."
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"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."
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"All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain."
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"Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be."
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"We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."
God,
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"An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty."
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"The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing."
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"Folly and evil are twins; the devil is their father, and wisdom is their enemy."
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"If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed."
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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."
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"If you can't define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can you really tell anyone else what it is. There is, in fact, no formal difference between inability to define and stupidity."
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"But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed."
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"If you would be a reader read if a writer write."
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"April Fools' is the only day to take people seriously."
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"Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense, but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon."
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"Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat."
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"Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed."
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