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Quotes by Philosopher
"Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you've found your place of eternity."
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"Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it."
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"A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best."
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"Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors."
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"You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you."
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"There's no destiny, you just decide where you end."
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"Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny."
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"Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives."
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"If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe."
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"Who can play without wanting to succeed even with a sentimentally gain?"
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"An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble."
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"Be good to those who are good, and just to those who are not; this is true wisdom. Do good unto others, not expecting them to do good unto you."
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"Every fashion is temporary but the concept of fashion is permanent!"
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"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."
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"If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage."
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"All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark."
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"Happy is the man who marries the woman he wants, happier is the man who marries the woman he needs."
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"Healthy trees bear healthy fruit."
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"Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!"
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"With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious."
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"A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony."
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"A man's greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!"
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"When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last."
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"Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it."
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"98% of the things said by a drunk man are true, 98% of those said by a horny man aren't."
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"There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to case positive or negative. One man is bigoted because he was given the sword of truth, another because he is angered in thoughtlessness; then, one man is tolerant because he was given the flag of peace, another because he is cowardly and wishes to hide all guilt."
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"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your too sudden passion is made up of spite and necessity."
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"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor."
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"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."
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"So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it."
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"There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth."
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"I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
Play,
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"The finest clothes anyone can wear are a kind heart and a loving soul."
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"The farther you venture into the forest the more valuable the fruit."
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"Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!"
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"It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration."
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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"
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"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."
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"Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!"
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"What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim."
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"Your inner world creates your outer world."
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"The best way to miss life is to have a fixed plan for it."
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"For those who challenge the great dangers fearlessly, let us remind this realistic probability: Fear can save your life and courage may kill you; thus sometimes fear is a reasonable path to continue your path!"
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"Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition."
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"Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them."
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"They say that people fall in and out of love, but do they, too, fall in hate? Or fall into indifference? It has hindered men for ages the notion that one falls in love rather than decides to truly love, the notion that his lack of control, on the B-side, can also make him fall in hate or indifference without the responsibility to help it or control it."
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