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Quotes by Philosopher
"The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain."
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"God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?"
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"Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief."
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"I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?"
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"You feel resentful to be on the low side of the comparison, yet being on the high side brings no peace either, because there's no such thing as being better all the time. So this is a great game to give up---you win by walking away."
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"Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a mere thing that had just happened, and get along with your life."
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"It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival."
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"Light is a beautiful servant, darkness is a dangerous master."
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"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."
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"A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers."
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"Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything?"
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"I owe my solitude to other people."
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"The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort."
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"And a man said, speak to us of self-knowledge.and he answered, saying:Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.And it is well that you should.The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;and the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.For self is a sea boundless and measureless."
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"An ounce of love can overcome a mountain of fear."
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"Trams and disciplined people always reach their destinations!"
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"Sometimes your mind can imprison your body and can put your body under some constraints. There is only one way for your body to be free: To free your mind!"
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"A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images."
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"What we call life is only talk of nature."
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"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."
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"Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better."
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"The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book."
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"Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth."
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"Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way."
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"Love is sweet even when what you go through is bitter."
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"Disease often comes with a smiling face."
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"Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a great target and then you will see that great instruments will appear for you to reach that target!"
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"There can never be surprises in logic."
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"Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?"
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"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."
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"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."
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"Humans which imprison the animals can never be called as humans!"
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"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it."
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"There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn."
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"Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise."
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"Be practical, be skillful, be teachable, and you will be successful."
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"She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart."
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"You don't have to pay the sun to rise, the moon to shine, and the stars to glow."
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"Don't be afraid of being alone, a lion does not rule the jungle with sheep at its side."
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"As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world- and finding it so much like myself, in fact so fraternal, I realized that I'd been happy, and that I was still happy. For the final consummation and for me to feel less lonely, my last wish was that there should be a crowd of spectators at my execution and that they should greet me with cries of hatred."
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"Marry the woman you love, then love the woman you marry."
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"I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further."
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"The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him."
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"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves."
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"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."
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"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."
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"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
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