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Quotes by Philosopher
"Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet."
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"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."
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"Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance."
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"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me."
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived."
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"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
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"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
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"The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'."
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"The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure."
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"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce."
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"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one."
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"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence."
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"Excess of strength alone is proof of strength."
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"I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things."
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"One who is wise is rich, one who is virtuous is wealthy, one who is happy is affluent, and one who is loving is prosperous."
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"Nothing is less instructive than a machine."
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"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."
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"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
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"To shine always love always."
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"The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism."
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"Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it."
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"If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature, In other words, there is no determinism, man is free, man is freedom. On the other hand, if God does not exist, we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct. So, in the bright realm of values, we have no excuses behind us, no justification before us. We are alone with no excuses.This is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet in other respects is free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
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"All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten."
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"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
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"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."
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"Light poured out multiplies light poured in."
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"There are countless circles of hell, believers never penetrate the ninth circle."
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"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."
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"What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them."
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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
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"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die."
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"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you."
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"In their minds, it seems as though people don't often have the same answers, but in their hearts, they do very frequently have the same questions."
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"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
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"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
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"Cowards drown in a pond. The extraordinary flourish in the middle of the ocean."
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"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."
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