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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies."
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"Impossible is what you say to yourself when you have given up."
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"It is not for a vulture to teach an eagle how to hunt."
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"Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression."
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"Morality cannot replace goodness. Knowledge cannot replace wisdom. Fame cannot replace honor. Pleasure cannot replace contentment. Passion cannot replace love."
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"If they ask you how rich you are, tell them to look inside your heart."
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"It is easier to pluck a flower than to nurture it, which is why some would prefer to destroy your talents than nurture them."
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"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
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"Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with."
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"To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!"
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"To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity."
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"The bitterest fruit tastes sweet when you share it with someone you love."
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"Don't carry your mistakes with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones."
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"Wisdom lies at the edge of intelligence. Joy lies at the edge of happiness. Faith lies at the edge of boldness. Love lies at the edge of kindness. God lies at the edge of righteousness."
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"The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity."
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"Big obstacles shrink when you confront them, small obstacles expand when you dodge them."
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"I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself."
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"Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time."
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"Wisdom in sorrow is better than joy in folly."
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"No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe."
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"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out."
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"Water has no hands, but carries great ships. Air has no shoulders, but carries large planes. The Sun has no eyes, but finds its way around the universe."
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"There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!"
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"For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!"
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"Women are the best thieves you will ever meet; they steal your heart and your last name, but never get to spend the night in jail."
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"The greater your inner light the brighter your outer world."
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"To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him."
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"Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time."
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"Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this."
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"The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values-something whose like has never been seen on earth."
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"When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!"
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"In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering."
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"There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen."
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"Gula and Cali lie on their sides, their tiny adder-mouths showing the pink of their palates, their bodies throbbing with lustful and obscene dreams. The sky releases its burden of sun and color. Eyes closed, Catherine takes the long fall that carries her deep into herself, down where some animal stirs gently, breathing like a god."
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"You can blow out a candle, but you cannot blow out a star."
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"Multitudes speak of their first love, seldom about their last hate."
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"The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind."
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"Let us drink wine to remember what kind of mystical beauties life offers us and to comprehend what sort of magic potions existence has!"
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"Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness."
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"In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge."
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"With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing."
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"You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."
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"Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence."
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"Fisherman looks for the fish in the middle of a mysterious misty lake, mankind looks for the meaning of life in the middle of a mysterious cold space!"
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"Reach for the stars, not your fears."
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"At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they're returning. It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence."
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