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Quotes by Philosopher
"In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie."
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"When the heart says "yes" - it is difficult for the mind to say "no."
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"In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on."
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"Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!"
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"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
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"Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered."
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"Just because an impressive storm doesn't touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!"
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"Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead."
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"Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy."
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"If you try to test a river's depths with both feet, you will drown."
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"Riches are for spending."
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"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong."
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"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive."
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"The world would have no rainbows if the sky had not storms."
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"Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do."
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"And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably. Still, somehow this line of thought wasn't as consoling as it should have been; the idea of all those years of life in hand was a galling reminder!"
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"Man's delight in the Lord is the absolute peak of human triumph. He praises God when full of joy, and when not, he praises God to become full of joy. For to know and to live as though God is worthy of all praise, in all one's circumstances, whether seemingly good or seemingly bad, is the primary definition of joy and the richest triumph for man under God."
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"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."
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"Most countries have only few honest politicians and this is just like having a body with only few good organs functioning!"
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"Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread."
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"Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn't live off fame, but rather deeds."
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"People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels."
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"It's not easy to write a poem about a poem."
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"You become what you allow yourself to become."
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"Let silence be your guide, and it will reveal all answers."
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
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"If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse."
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"Do not fixate on the odds against you but on victory ahead of you."
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"Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow."
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"Think how the great think, do what the great do, live how the great live, and you will achieve what the great achieve."
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"Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem."
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"Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!"
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"Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned many into activists."
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"The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves."
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"Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance."
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"Love is my favorite drug, I overdose on it regularly."
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"The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room."
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"I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works."
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"He who hides himself amongst the shadows deserves to live inside the dark shadows! Meet with the light to deserve the light!"
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"Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too."
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"The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation."
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"To understand even remotely the holy omnipotence of God is to understand at least from mostly to wholly the magnificence of Christ."
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"What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashamed in front of oneself."
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"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."
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"True champions, like the sun, cannot be eclipsed for long."
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"Anger slowly. Forgive quickly. Trust cautiously. Love easily."
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"A whale has nowhere to hide in a river."
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