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Quotes by Philosopher
"If you want to rise, drop everyone that is weighing you down."
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"Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up."
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"Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is good. It is the first telling that God is indeed God, by sheer definition, and not some ear-tickling fairy by which one in his depravity is guaranteed to find another form of stale romanticism or love at first sight. For such a first impression as the latter would be problematic to the essence of Christianity. Therefore the Christians are right in saying that the nature of imperfect men cannot ultimately co-exist with the nature of a perfect God; and that the hope of each man is now desperately found in God's sending of Christ."
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"I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?"
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"Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness."
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"When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval."
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"A lion will never be afraid of sheep, no matter how many outnumber it."
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"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."
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"The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily."
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"Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive along with which comes the inner voice which says "This is the real me " and when you have found that attitude follow it."
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"I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby."
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"There are no facts only interpretations."
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"First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality!"
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"While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself."
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"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
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"Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect."
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"I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination."
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"Today's tears are an investment into tomorrow's smiles."
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"Live in such a way that your presence makes the world brighter."
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"The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it."
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"POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS."
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"We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help."
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"Faith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse."
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"The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones."
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"Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word."
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"Overrated is order."
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"As stars cannot help but sparkle, the great cannot help but shine."
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"The vacancy in your heart doesn't connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee must first have all the necessary credentials needed for the job."
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"In helping yourself, you prove you are strong; in helping others, you prove you are compassionate; in helping many, you prove you are generous; if helping everyone, you prove you are enlightened."
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"If death blew a trumpet each time he was coming, there would be no one to greet him on arrival."
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"For nothing is more democratic than logic, it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."
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"Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult!"
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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"Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future."
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"They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle."
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"A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he's seen often, he's just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way."
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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
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"Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius."
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"Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!"
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"Worldly religion is that which replaces Faith with mere wishful thinking. One must not make the common mistake of putting his faith in all the things he thinks God ought to bless him with; he should instead keep his faith planted in God Himself. Present to Him his needs and wants like a child to his Father, but have faith only in His wisdom and goodness like a servant to his King. God must always be one's Everything before He is one's token to everything."
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"The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend."
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"You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight."
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"You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive - or cheap - his clothes are."
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"Every believer is also a nonbeliever because he does not believe in the things nonbelievers believe in, every nonbeliever is also a believer because he believes in the things believers do not believe in!"
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"Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed."
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"If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."
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