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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"The sky is only the limit if you have not set your eyes on reaching the stars."
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"At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise."
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"A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance."
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"I have reached this world's dreams harbor as devoid of truth as any other soul that dreams it lives through knowledge."
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"True gratitude ascends to the highest altitudes."
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"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."
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"What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?"
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"Right thinking is your best light in this dark universe, it is your best hope in your worst hopelessness!"
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"God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself."
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"Stars don't beg the sky to shine."
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"You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles."
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"If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods."
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"Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder."
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"We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us."
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"In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved."
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"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
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"When he is most powerful, nothing does he become."
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"The difficulty is that, so long as unreason prevails, a solution of our troubles can only be reached by chance; for while reason, being impersonal, makes universal co-operation possible, unreason, since it represents private passions, makes strife inevitable. It is for this reason that rationality, in the sense of an appeal to a universal and impersonal standard of truth, is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species."
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"The sun will rise whether you like it or not, whether you oppose it or not, whether you care about it or not! Some things will happen whatever you think and whatever you feel about them!"
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"Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and see nothing but grey skies and dead things and cold."
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"An entire mythology is stored within our language."
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"Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters."
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"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
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"Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth!"
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"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
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"Truth is most beautiful undraped."
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"As for the best leaders the people do not notice their existence. The next best the people honour and praise. The next the people fear and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done the people say 'we did it ourselves!'"
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"As individuals express their life, so they are."
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"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
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"Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only Diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Downpulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb."
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"Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -buried under the 50,000 thoughtsthe average person thinks every day."
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"Because a spoon is made of gold does not change the soup's taste."
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"Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that."
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"If the sky was the limit, none of our heroes would have reached the moon."
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"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."
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"Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts."
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"Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait."
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"If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs."
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"I'm a lion in a strange land."
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"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
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"Society in its boundless ignorance ridicules the caterpillar but praises the butterfly."
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"Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."
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