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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love."
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"To write good poems is the secret of brevity."
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"Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions."
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"A cowardly warrior is like a toothless lion."
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"Do not rummage through your thought's drawer because you will be ever more disorientated than they are."
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"Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth."
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"The fear of losing anything is the inability to prepare for the best."
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"You worry less about misplacing a star when the whole sky is yours."
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"Your darkest experiences often lead you to your brightest fortunes."
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"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
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"Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I."
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"Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly."
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"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."
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"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
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"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"
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"Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement."
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"Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today made by past generations was before its appearance a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman."
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"That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen."
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"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
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"Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life."
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"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"Love is the master key that opens every blessings door."
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"Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead."
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"Your mental problem becomes a solution when it can be used to solve problems."
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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
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"Stumbling up a hill strengthens you more than sprinting down a mountain."
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"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."
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"Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?"
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"There is only one autumn in a year, but in people's life, there are many autumns in one year!"
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"Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you."
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"When somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences."
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"Man is the cruelest animal."
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"The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events - that the world beyond the skins is actually an extension of our own bodies - and will end in destroying the very environment form which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends."
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"Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power."
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"A tree's beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots."
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"See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within."
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"By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week."
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"Aloneness is the presence of oneself, solitude is the presence of God."
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"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."
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"A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics."
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"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to."
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"I have the 'L'. You have the 'O'. Fate has the 'V'. Together we have the 'E'. How then can we deny we are in LOVE?"
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"If a creative person steals your idea, he's killing his creative ability, if he steals your art, he's killing his art, if he makes it available to the world, it won,t create de impact you could have created, because it wasn't from the right source."
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"Paying the price for your dreams proves you can afford them."
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"A man stroking a dog's head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!"
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