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Quotes by Philosopher
"It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head."
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"Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock."
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"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions."
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"Fear takes you low, faith takes you high, but love takes you everywhere."
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"In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted."
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"Names do not write poems nor do they create work."
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"We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us."
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"They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night."
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"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
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"Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race."
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"You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."
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"Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing."
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"It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect."
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"The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens."
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"We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack."
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"The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here."
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"The intelligent person depends on his own insight, not on beliefs."
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"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."
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"We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan."
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"For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself."
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"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."
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"It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and this world straining against each other without being able to embrace each other. I ask for the rule- of life of that state, and what I am offered neglects its basis,negates one of the terms of the painful opposition, demands of me a resignation. I ask what is involved in the condition I recognize as mine; I know it implies obscurity and ignorance; and I am assured that this ignorance explains everything and that this darkness is mylight."
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"A versifier arranges sounds, a poet arranges meaning in the sounds."
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"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
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"To see a man's true colours, tell him that you don't plan on having sex with him. To see a woman's true colours, tell her that you don't plan on marrying her."
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"The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."
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"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics."
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"You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes."
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"For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!"
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"Another name for destiny is opportunity, once you miss it, your destiny is gone."
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"When reaching for the stars, beware of those who want to cut off your hands."
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"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
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"I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they call 'middle-of-the-road' in most cases just means you have a hard time figuring out who between options is dumber. So quite often those who refused to decide were, after all, the bold individuals, the influential ones, the creative ones, those who snatched their own authority."
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"The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wrong. It keeps his mouth shut, his ears open, and his research extensive. And yet this is also the deadliest because when he is in fact proven wrong, he absolutely refuses to acknowledge it. It then keeps his mouth open, his ears shut, and his research inexistent."
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"To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish."
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"The eye of true equality often seems to have some degree of disrespect for the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty to the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty, although in reality, it's simply irrespectiveness."
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"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."
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"Institutions train men to be skilled, the wilderness trains men to become great."
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"Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them."
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"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."
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"If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields."
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"The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations."
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"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
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"Perpetual optimism is good for the mind. Perpetual hope is good for the heart. Perpetual faith is good for the heart."
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"You are a gift to the universe, but a package is only valuable if it allows itself to be unwrapped."
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"This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."
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"The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason."
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"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powers of imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality bound to the quality of the intellect."
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