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Quotes by Philosopher
"How small a thought it takes to fill a life."
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"A full mind is more valuable than a full bank account."
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"A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn't want to break."
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"Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!"
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"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back."
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"The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language."
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"America is a young country with an old mentality."
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"On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use."
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"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."
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"No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind."
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"Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery."
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"To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom."
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"Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they'll say you're crazy and you're blasphemous, and they'll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, 'My goodness, I've just discovered that I'm God,' they'll laugh and say, 'Oh, congratulations, at last you found out."
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"To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions."
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"Beautiful thoughts precede a beautiful life."
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"God save me from fools with a little philosophy-no one is more difficult to reach."
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"If you have a spark of genius, kindle it until it becomes a flame."
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"Because the moon is not jealous of the sun, it benefits from its light."
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"It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate."
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"Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that "I am is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite."
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"To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love."
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"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."
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"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"
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"Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator."
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"Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies."
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"Amor Fati " "Love Your Fate, which is in fact your life."
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"Falling in love with someone is intentional, even if it was their looks that tripped you."
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"Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other."
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"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
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"Whether the woman shares the man's passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it, she always repulses him and defends herself, though not always with the same vigour, and therefore not always with the same success."
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"The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses."
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"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."
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"If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear."
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"You speak rather poorly of God when praising Him, or when wanting to praise Him, only during that which you perceive to be your highest of moments. That is many a reason behind unbelief altogether: the failed attempt to control God, to lower His standards to one's own level of understanding in doubt of His foresight and omniscience, His goodness and power. He wants to know if you are faithful enough to praise Him even when, to you, all seems lost."
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"The answer to the problem of suffering is not away from the problem but in it. The inevitability of pain will not be met by deadening sensitivity but by increasing it, by exploring and feeling out the manner in which the natural organism itself wants to react and which its innate wisdom has provided."
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"Man cannot be content in his riches even if he has the whole world, there must be a frivolous extra desire."
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"Temporary friends sometimes bring us to permanent blessings."
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"In vain a zealous evangelist with a fely hat and flowing tie threads his way through the crowd, crying without cease: 'God is great and good. Come unto Him.' On the contrary, they all make haste toward some trivial objective that seems of more immediate interest than God."
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"Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!"
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"Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives."
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"Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires."
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"Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever."
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"Grass is never green by accident."
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"This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it's just nothing. As soon as you put a border on it, it's gone."
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