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Quotes by Philosopher
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
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"Expect success. Desire success. Attract success. Realize success."
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"Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome."
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"Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine."
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"What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it."
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"You cannot carry your past without dropping your future."
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"We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer."
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"We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
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"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."
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"There is a truth in Schopenhauer's view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say 'Let's get a rough idea', for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads."
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"Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight."
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"Love and freedom go together. Love is not a relationship, it is a state of being."
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"Let the mechanics of desire bring your fulfilment without interference.the more you interfere, the less likely you will get what you want."
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"Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life."
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"If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning."
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"If you listen to critics for too long, you will become deaf to success."
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"Light does not have to beg darkness to shine."
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"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
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"Men die:and they are not happy."
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"God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end, for it gradually becomes more natural and delightful."
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"The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest."
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"When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
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"...love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were one's own."
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"I know none of Time's cardinal pillar on which it says forever just because eternity is not Time anymore."
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"Whether you studied sexology or not, nobody will teach you how to screw, nobody will point to your vagina and say, hey that's where you pee and bonk! And nobody will say, hey, your penis can ejaculate when you stroke or slide it into a woman's punani!"
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"Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow."
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"If children learn of sex as a relation between their parents to which they owe their own existence, they learn of it in its best form and in connection with its biological purpose."
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"There is no illusion greater than fear."
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"For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all."
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"It's easier to get philosophers to agree than clocks."
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"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
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"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."
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"Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken."
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"I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world."
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"The reality of the mind can be one hundred percent different than the reality of the reality!"
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"Honey does not lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting."
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
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"...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way..."
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"Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine."
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"You may have a small body, but great strength. You may have an ordinary mind, but great wisdom. You may have a wounded heart, but great courage. You may have a weary soul, but great love."
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"The moon only dares compete with the stars when the sun is in its corner."
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"It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do it. You can find thousands of books on prayer that give you methods of praying, hundreds of 'hows'; but they do you no good at all unless you actually pray. Otherwise it's like reading a cookbook instead of cooking. You can't eat a cookbook!"
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"If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking."
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"Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul."
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"This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude."
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"Love is more powerful than even the sun; light can only enter your eyes, but love can enter your soul."
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"Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked."
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"Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness."
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