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Quotes by Philosopher
"The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure, it's a little like making love, the physical act of love."
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"I fly through memory to find a newborn love."
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"You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!"
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"Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated."
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"Where a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage."
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"Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique."
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"Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit."
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"One soul-mate is enough to face life's countless soul-enemies."
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"Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl."
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"There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable."
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"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."
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"A writer cannot serve today those who make history, he must serve those who are subject to it."
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"A blunt arrow in the air has greater potential to strike than a sharp one in a quiver."
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"Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns."
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"Your real journey starts when you stop running away."
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"Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them."
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"Beware of befriending wolves; remember, they are only loyal to their appetite."
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"It's beautiful to be alone, it's also beautiful to be in love, to be with people."
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"Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved."
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it."
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"Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions."
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"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."
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"A life without investigation is not worth living."
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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
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"History will be erased in the universal purgatory."
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"It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst."
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"This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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"In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient."
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"Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not."
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"The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity."
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"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
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"Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it."
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"A seed does not die because you buried it, neither does a warrior."
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"But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination."
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"You walk and walk and walk and then you look at back and see your youth, so far away from you, so young, so curious, so hopeful, so breezy, so brave! To feel young in old age, remember your youth very often! Remind yourself frequently what you were once!"
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"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."
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"One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things " is that not a sage indeed?"
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"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
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"A man cannot really be called (sexually) confident if he has never bought his woman a vibrator."
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"The world of being is unchangeable, rigid, exact, delightful to the mathematician, the logician, the builder of metaphysical systems, and all who love perfection more than life. The world of existence is fleeting, vague, without sharp boundaries, without any clear plan or arrangement, but it contains all thoughts and feelings, all the data of sense, and all physical objects, everything that can do either good or harm, everything that makes any difference to the value of life and the world. According to our temperaments, we shall prefer the contemplation of the one or of the other."
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"Light is always one step ahead of darkness."
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"Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete."
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"With me: one minus one = one, with you: it's zero. Here lies the only difference."
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"It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head."
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