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Quotes by Philosopher
"Think twice as much as others. Study twice as much as others. Work twice as much as others. Give twice as much as others."
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"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
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"Greatness in your body is strength. Greatness in your mind is wisdom. Greatness in your heart is faith. Greatness in your soul is love. Greatness in your life is God."
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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
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"Unless humanity gives top priority to the space science, there will be no future for the humanity!"
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"The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist."
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"Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer."
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"Most powerful is he who has himself in his power."
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"Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't."
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"The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you."
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"The more you try to impress, the more you become depressed, and the more they get tired of your coercion. It doesn't make them love you, instead, they'll see you as a little child, trying to draw a senseless picture on a piece of paper, begging people to look at it and admire it by force. You can persuade someone to look at your face, but you can't persuade them to see the beauty therein."
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"And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?"
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"To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste."
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"I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides."
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"It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them, but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents."
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"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
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"That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness."
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"All human activity is prompted by desire."
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"Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind, it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile."
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"Knock on the sky's door, and stars will open it; knock on the universe's door, and love will open it."
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"A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets."
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"And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good ."
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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
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"Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness."
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"There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing."
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"We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and the ethics!"
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"Trees generously share their fruit. Bees generously share their honey. Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise."
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"If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?"
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"The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love."
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"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."
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"It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought."
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"You cannot till this year's land using last year's sun."
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"He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love."
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"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."
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"Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe."
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"Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments " and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education."
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"Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself."
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"The dawn of beauty always comes after night."
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"When the wind blows,the grass bends."
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"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."
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"Molecules form and dissolve, returning to the primordial soup of atoms. But consciousness survives the death of the molecules on which it rides. What was once a bundle of energy in a sunbeam turns into a leaf, only to fall and change again into soil. The change of state crosses many boundaries. A sunbeam is invisible, whereas leaves and soil are visible.A leaf is alive and growing,whereas sunbeams aren't.the colors of light, leaf, and soil are different, and so on.But all these transformations exist as constructs of the mind.The actual energy present in the sunbeam experiences no change at all."
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"Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable."
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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
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"It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an 'illogical' world would look like."
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"Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on."
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"The less you want, the happier you are; the happier you are, the less you want."
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"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name's chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns."
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"It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain."
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"Your soul fountain will never drain until the instant of eternity will halt before it to drink the water of death."
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"To lead people, you must follow behind."
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