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Quotes by Philosopher
"Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake."
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"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
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"Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis."
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"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth."
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"Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure."
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"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable, the latter is not."
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"Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes, later, amidst life's challenges and doubts, turn from the faith; other people are ignorant of Scripture but educated in the world, and are therefore prone to missing the truth of Scripture - they are often those who ridicule the faith. The apologist stands somewhere in the center. He articulates where some are prone to understanding the truth in beauty, others the beauty in truth - that of a spiritual Creator in relation to his scientific creation."
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"A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone."
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"The legions who attempt to love without Christ, without a new heart, are indeed able to love amongst themselves; however this love is made possible by restraining any anger or hatred deep within the old heart, only to release it all on whichever village idiot(s) they collectively feel a crucifixion would be justified."
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"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."
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"Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price."
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"If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"Some people talk about other people's failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes."
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"In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimming is - it's kind of a relaxed attitude with the water. In which you don't keep yourself afloat by holding the water, but by a certain giving to it."
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"God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong."
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"Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend."
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"All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers. For everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the life of those be who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep. By great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return."
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"The future influences the present just as much as the past."
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"Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy."
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"You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism."
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"A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory!"
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"Wisdom is more faithful than a woman, and knowledge is more faithful than a friend. Folly is more oppressive than a tyrant, and evil more overwhelming than fury."
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"God tells you where to look, love tells you what to see."
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"If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!"
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"Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like."
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"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."
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"However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!"
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"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."
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"A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance."
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"Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it."
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"This consists in not taking a book into one's hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time - such as political or religious pamphlets, novels, poetry, and the like, which make a noise and reach perhaps several editions in their first and last years of existence. Remember rather that the man who writes for fools always finds a large public: and only read for a limited and definite time exclusively the works of great minds, those who surpass other men of all times and countries, and whom the voice of fame points to as such. These alone really educate and instruct.One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind."
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"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."
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"By standing alone, you prove your courage. By standing with others, you prove your love. By standing with truth, you prove your virtue. By standing with God, you prove your faith."
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"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
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"Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well!"
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"Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity."
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"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
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"Don't ask for a girl's hand in marriage and forget to ask for her leg too."
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"If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God."
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"The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom."
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"The universe is one body, love is its heartbeat."
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"We ought to face our destiny with courage."
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"In every nation's history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!"
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"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
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"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."
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"In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all."
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