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Quotes by Philosopher
"May my soul bloom in love for all existence."
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"Envy is admiration laced with resentment."
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"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."
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"An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?"
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"There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin."
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"The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause."
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"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."
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"Seek wisdom, and success will find you."
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"The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not."
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"I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man."
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"One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought."
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"While stabbing someones back, you recklessly expose your own."
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"Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked."
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"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."
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"And always, in our highly regularised way of life, he is obsessed by thoughts of themorrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for the morrow will lead him to save; if he is imprudent, it will make him apprehensive of being unable to pay his debts. In either case the moment loses its savour. Everything is organised, nothing is spontaneous."
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"He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing."
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"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
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"It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain."
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"The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself."
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"Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace."
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"In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator."
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"It is better to learn two important lessons in life than a thousand when you are about to die."
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"Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29)."
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"When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!"
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"As the day you get married is as important as the years of courtship, so the journey to success is as important as success itself."
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"The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies."
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"A bird does not achieve its highest potential inside its shell."
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"Cats don't need to be possessed, they're evil on their own."
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"The further you are in the wilderness, the closer the Promised Land is."
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"Love as a passion-it is our European specialty-must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself."
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"The primary goal of a righteous parent who has a daughter is to minimize the number of boys and men for whom their daughter will have willingly opened her legs come her wedding day; the closer to zero, the more righteous they will seem."
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"A star never loses its shine, not even in the dark."
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"Fish that boast in a pond should not boast in the ocean."
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"I rebel, therefore I exist."
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"Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love."
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"Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care."
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"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"Not every single way of saying the right thing is right."
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"A face can have a thousand wrinkles, but the soul have none."
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"When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables."
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"The darkness of the storm determines the brightness of the rainbow."
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"Always have there been great numbers of individuals who were very much eager to fight for good causes. Always there were these, but then there were even greater numbers of trendies who would then become wholly and completely misguided in the efforts."
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"This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive."
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"God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners."
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"Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper."
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"A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest."
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"There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man."
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"A blank cheque kills creativity."
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"Walking on water requires feet of faith."
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