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Quotes by Philosopher
"Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror."
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"Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art."
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"When I say 'The good man gave his good dog a good meal,' I use 'good' analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it."
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"Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away."
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"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."
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"Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion."
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"Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings."
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"Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style."
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"Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end."
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"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."
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"Divorce fear. Court courage. Pursue hope. Marry love."
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"Uniqueness is like a signature, nobody can forge it's exact copy."
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"We will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim."
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"There is nothing to be got in the world anywhere; privation and pain pervade it, and boredom lies in wait at every corner for those who have escaped them. Moreover, wickedness usually reigns, and folly does all the talking. Fate is cruel, and human beings are pathetic."
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"Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves."
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"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species."
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"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."
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"Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative."
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"No lake so still but it has its wave.No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.I would change things for you if I could, As I can't you must take them as they are."
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"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."
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"There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse."
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"It is wise to read some books, and wise to throw away some."
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"If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it, but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you."
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"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
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"Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man."
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"You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings."
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"God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so."
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"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."
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"A wise bird would rather lose a worm than a feather."
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"If a flower perseveres through concrete, you can persevere through anything."
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"The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon."
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"Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."
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"It is a great shame for anyone to listen to the accusation that Islam is a lie and that Muhammad was a fabricator and a deceiver. We saw that he remained steadfast upon his principles, with firm determination; kind and generous, compassionate, pious, virtuous, with real manhood, hardworking and sincere. Besides all these qualities, he was lenient with others, tolerant, kind, cheerful and praiseworthy and perhaps he would joke and tease his companions. He was just, truthful, smart, pure, magnanimous and present-minded; his face was radiant as if he had lights within him to illuminate the darkest of nights; he was a great man by nature who was not educated in a school nor nurtured by a teacher as he was not in need of any of this."
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"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
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"Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is."
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"If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as a spirit, exists beyond death; and therefore only he could do it righteously. For the physical being kills a man and hatefully sends him away, whereas God, the spiritual being, kills a man and lovingly draws him nigh."
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"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
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"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."
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"The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy."
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"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."
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"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."
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"To be happy we must not be too concerned with others."
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"It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men."
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"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
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