top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Philosopher
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."
59
"It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born."
59
"Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers."
58
"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
58
"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
58
"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
58
"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."
58
"Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer."
58
"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."
58
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
58
"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
58
"The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things."
58
"Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all barriers, thoughts, and distractions to simply be present."
58
"The Christian should never have to put others down in order to feel good about himself. Instead, he can simply check out the media's insistent portrayal of Christianity and feel grateful that he isn't as deceived as the masses who really swallow the garbage. Ignorance is ultimately how people put themselves down, and the mere Christian who knows what entails the mere Christian is ultimately free from such."
58
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little."
58
"What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?"
58
"Stars cannot achieve their highest potential without the dark."
58
"All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire."
58
"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."
58
"Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness."
58
"Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened-the gratitude of a convalescent-for convalescence was unexpected. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of seas that are open again."
58
"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."
58
"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater."
58
"We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy."
58
"That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget."
58
"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."
58
"Remember that all we have is "on loan from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission-indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever-nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long."
58
"Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue."
58
"The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart."
58
"We are all of us richer than we think we are."
58
"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred."
58
"I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month."
58
"Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think."
58
"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."
58
"It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us."
58
"Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious."
58
"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
58
"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
58
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
58
"One promises much, to avoid giving little."
58
"In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul."
58
"No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men."
58
"The devil's happy when the critics run you off."
58
bottom of page