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Quotes by Philosopher
"She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."
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"Reward those who help you. Forget those who use you. Ignore those who judge you. Forgive those who wrong you."
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"We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!"
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"In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the body."
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"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."
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"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end."
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"Confession is not all about telling your bad deeds to the public, but being proud of the bad things you have done so far."
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"The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy."
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"To perceive is to suffer."
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"The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles."
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"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs."
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"If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity."
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"True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor."
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"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
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"We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health."
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"Your eyes will always be closer to your soul than to any other part of your body except the heart."
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"Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!"
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"Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom."
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"Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult."
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"A fruitless year, take a fearless heartOne that blooms late will flourish in the dark."
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"In our dreams, we find the dreams of others, and in other's dreams we find ourselves. No will is separated from others and no dream is in itself isolated from the will of God."
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
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"He who would know the world must first manufacture it."
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"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."
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"Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves."
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"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute."
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"Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition."
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"The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal."
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"Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant."
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"If you want to live a joyful life, stop trying to prove yourself to others."
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"Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation."
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"Words live longer than mortals."
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"He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip."
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"I don't know why-it's just that-I don't know-they're not kin.'-Surprising word, I think to myself never used it before. Not of kin-sounds like hillbilly talk-not of a kind-same root-kindness, too-they can't have real kindness toward him, they're not his kin -- . That's exactly the feeling. Old word, so ancient it's almost drowned out. What a change through the centuries. Now anybody can be 'kind.' And everybody's supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you were born into and couldn't help. Now it's just a faked-up attitude half the time, like teachers the first day of class. But what do they really know about kindness who are not kin."
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"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way, as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves."
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"The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to receive it."
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"If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression."
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"A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way."
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"The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions."
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"Then said a teacher , speak to us of teaching . And he said :The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.The astronomer may spaeak to you of his understanding of space , but he cannot give you his understanding.The musician may sing to you of the rythem which is in all space , but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rythem nor the voice that echoes it .And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure , but he cannot conduct you thither .For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man ."
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"It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not always wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'."
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"The best learners are the best earners."
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"Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy."
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