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Quotes by Philosopher
"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music. People corwd around the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul."
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"Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery."
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"No human relation gives one possession in another-every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone."
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"There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love."
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"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
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"Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature."
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"In the modern world, however, love has another enemy more dangerous than religion, and that is the gospel of work and economic success. It is generally held, especially in America, that a man should not allow love to interfere with his career, and that if he does, he is silly. But in this as in all human matters a balance is necessary."
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"Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my vast language? "Yea, we are twin brothers, O, Night; for thou revealest space and I reveal my soul."
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"What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?"
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"Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength."
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"There is an underlying unity in all things."
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"Marriage happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."
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"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
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"Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible."
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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
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"The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fattest one."
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"Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots."
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"Darkness does not age, nothing is always nothing."
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"Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive."
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"When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window."
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"Spiritual battles have greater consequences than earthly wars."
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"Time is just quantified eternity."
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"Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death."
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"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."
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"The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them."
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"No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy."
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"Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will see something clearly articulated, a weak eye will see a blurred patch of colour."
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"You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything was equivalent and that good and evil could be defined according to one's wishes. You supposed that in the absence of any human or divine code the only values were those of the animal world-in other words, violence and cunning. Hence you concluded that man was negligible and that his soul could be killed, that in the maddest of histories the only pursuit for the individual was the adventure of power and his own morality, the realism of conquests."
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"Happiness is a state of activity."
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"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."
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"The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man."
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"Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."
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"If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes of blood sucking predators."
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"If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you'll keep resentment far away."
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"He thought others were small, that was his greatness."
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"Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation."
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"The source of all light is in the eye."
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"What the working man sells is not directly his labour, but his labouring power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. this is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Laws, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his labouring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer."
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"But memory is less disposed to compromise."
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"There are those who feel that the world is ultimately moving closer to Truth and to prosperity as the times evolve; then there are those who feel that it is ultimately moving farther away from Truth and into self-destruction. From this, and if it were really that simplistic, one might get the impression that life gravitates slightly into two types of people whom which are diametrically opposed in spirit."
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"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."
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"All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
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