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Quotes by Philosopher
"We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same."
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"Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark."
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"It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day."
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"False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists."
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"A kind 'no' from the heart is better than a deceitful 'yes' from the tongue."
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"Dream the impossible. See the impossible. Pursue the impossible. Achieve the impossible."
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"Use your mind's talents diligently, your heart's powers incredibly, and your soul's genius profitably."
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"What you conquer in your youth is your trophy in adulthood."
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"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them."
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"In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped."
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"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."
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"I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!"
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"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He tooconcludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neithersterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain,in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man'sheart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
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"The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy."
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"Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins."
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"Growth happens when you step beyond your comfort zone."
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"Coco Chanel is said to have said that a girl should be two things: who and what she is. I say a girl should do two things: what and who she wants."
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"The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing."
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"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."
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"Knowing it does not compare with loving it, loving it does not compare with delighting in it."
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"Both men and women who have children as a rule regulate their lives largely with reference to them, and children cause perfectly ordinary men and women to act unselfishly in certain ways, of which perhaps life insurance is the most definite and measurable."
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"The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that."
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"No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does."
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"[A]t bottom it is the same with traveling as with reading. How often do we complain that we cannot remember one thousandth part of what we read! In both cases, however, we may console ourselves with the reflection that the things we see and read make an impression on the mind before they are forgotten, and so contribute to its formation and nurture."
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"Color is the overpowering of black, white " the final victory over black."
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"The purpose of life is life."
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"To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy."
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"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
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"I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all."
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"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
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"Nobility is not only in forgiveness."
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"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything."
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"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."
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"For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, that the world was not made for us, and that, however beautiful may be the things we crave, Fate may nevertheless forbid them. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without regretting the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets. This degree of submission to power is not only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom."
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"A river cannot boast to a sea."
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"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
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"As for the secularist belief that says 'if we were to eliminate all religions, the world would know peace,' this is the Atheist Heaven; thus it is so important to him (although perhaps more laughable than some say the Christian Heaven). It is about as useless as saying 'if all people were true Christians, the world would know peace,' or 'if all people were devout Muslims, the world would know peace.' And even yet, the secular dream could remain active only for a time before generational rebellion and freedom of thought were to kick in anew."
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"Sages are soldiers on the war on ignorance."
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"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values."
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"If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows."
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"And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us."
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"We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly."
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"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
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"Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happiness."
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"Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space."
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"I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved."
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"I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own."
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