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Quotes by Philosopher
"Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one."
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"Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else, it is to say that that person is superior in some sense."
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"Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them."
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"Joy gives you strength. Hope gives you fortitude. Faith gives you courage. Love gives you power."
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"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
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"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."
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"Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger."
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"The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
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"Lend your ears to the deaf, your eyes to the blind, your hands to the weak, your tongue to the mute, your mind to the perplexed, and your heart to the weary."
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"Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge."
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"That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way."
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"An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins."
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"Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever."
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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
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"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."
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"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis."
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"The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind."
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"On the whole the modern world has been conditioned to have a chip on its shoulder against devoutly religious people. I disagree with this in some instances - particularly in, believe it or not, matters of integrity. Deep down I often rather believe the man who honestly thinks - or better yet even, prefers - that he has an omnipotent Judge breathing down his neck, holding his every word and his every move accountable, than the man who much like his modern peers, and ironically enough, claims or wishes to bask in complete independence. As it appears actually, the former is more free of guilt than the latter."
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"Every time a man (myself) gives way to vanity, every time he thinks and lives in order to show off, this is a betrayal. Every time, it has always been the great misfortune of wanting to show off which has lessened me in the presence of the truth. We do not need to reveal ourselves to others, but only to those we love. For then we are no longer revealing ourselves in order to seem but in order to give. There is much more strength in a man who reveals himself only when it is necessary. I have suffered from being alone, but because I have been able to keep my secret I have overcome the suffering of loneliness. To go right to the end implies knowing how to keep one's secret. And, today, there is no greater joy than to live alone and unknown."
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"Human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way."
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"Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face."
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"Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt, you cannot wage war; where you are in command, where you can see someone beneath you, you should not wage war."
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"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."
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"Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness."
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"Danger is opportunity's seer."
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"Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides."
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"Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires."
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"God is busy and has no time for you."
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"Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities."
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"I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the power not to shuffle away from the Faith, the power to break loose from these marching-shackles of ongoing cultural and political pretense."
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"For a marriage to work a husband must learn these two words: "Yes dear."
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"In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one."
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"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."
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"My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!"
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"If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion."
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"Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances."
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"All began to change in the reverse direction and grow more tender. The white hair of the elderly began to grow black; the cheeks of the bearded to grow smooth, and one and all to return to the season of bloom that they had left behind them. Young men's bodies grew smoother and smaller day by day and night by night till they reverted alike in mind and body to the likes of a newborn infant, and then dwindled right away and were clean lost to sight."
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"Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred."
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"In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity."
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"Endurance is patience concentrated."
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"Money is a great asset, talent is an extraordinary asset, and courage is an exceptional asset."
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"Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you."
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"Do you deserve it? Do I deserve it? These are questions that don't require an answer because they shouldn't be made. Live life to your will and let others judge the results as they want. They'll probably never understand, and that's why they are they and not you."
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"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored."
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"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes."
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"Moments are the elements of profit."
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