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Quotes by Philosopher
"A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less."
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"Wisdom is the pillar of success."
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"Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth."
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"Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give."
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"If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us."
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"Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions."
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"I'm turned on by women who are comfortable in their own skin, and I'm turned off by those who are uncomfortable in their own shoes."
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"Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless."
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"Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts."
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"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."
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"Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits."
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"Don't use your energy to hate on anyone, use it to create the life you desire."
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"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."
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"To notice is to select, toregard some bits of perception, or some features of the world, as morenoteworthy, more significant, than others. To these we attend, and therest we ignore-for which reason conscious attention is at the same time ignorance despite the fact that it gives us a vividlyclear picture of whatever we choose to notice."
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"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."
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"Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty."
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"Either you will be you or you will not be at all."
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"Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing " there's nothing to be done for such people."
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"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."
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"What shell did not feel the sound waves and which bird did not face at least once the wind?"
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"In a certain sense it might well be said that his was an exemplary life. He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to. Without a blush he confessed to dearly loving his nephews and sister, his only surviving near relation, whom he went to France to visit every other year. He admitted that the thought of his parents, whom he lost when he was very young, often gave him a pang. He did not conceal the fact that he had a special affection for a church bell in his part of the town which started pealing very melodiously at about five every afternoon."
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"It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people."
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"If I hold my head to the left and look down at the handle grips and front wheel and map carrier and gas tank I get one pattern of sense data. If I move my head to the right I get another slightly different pattern of sense data. The two views are different. The angles of the planes and curves of the metal are different. The sunlight strikes them differently. If there's no logical basis for substance then there's no logical basis for concluding that what's produced these two views is the same motorcycle."
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"Utilizing all of your mind is a step towards brilliance. Utilizing all of your heart is a step towards excellence. Utilizing all of your soul is a step towards nobleness. Utilizing all of your mind, heart, and soul is a step towards greatness."
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"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
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"Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!"
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"Mother said, haven't you seen older boys of your age, that you should take your rotten hands and play with my son's penis? I held my mouth, and i really stiffled a giggle. Now i understood the bloody vexation and the reckless act performed by our housegirl. She was fondling my infant part, and i knew she was horny and lost in the act."
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"Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden."
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"As clichA© as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence."
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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."
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"All the roads of life end in death."
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"Professional' does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby."
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"When you make a choice, you change the future."
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"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross."
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"In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society."
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"Cowards shrink from challenges, weaklings flee from them, and warriors wink at them."
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"In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"How can we "find ourselves again? How can man "know himself? He is a thing obscure and veiled. If the hare has seven skins, man can cast from him seventy times seven skins, and not be able to say: "Here you truly are; there is skin no more.Also this digging into oneself, this straight, violent descent into the pit of one's being, is a troublesome and dangerous business to start. You may easily take such hurt, that no doctor can heal you. And what is the point: since everything bears witness to our essence - our friendships and enmities, our looks and greetings, our memories and forgetfulnesses, our books and our writing!"
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"Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question."
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"Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
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"Losing one feather does not prevent a bird from flying."
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"Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized."
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