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Quotes by Philosopher
"If your present thoughts do not lift you higher than your previous ones, rid yourself of them."
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"The opinion of success matters more than the opinions of your critics."
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"Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide."
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"Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write."
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"But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things in life. The worshipper of Dionysus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence had destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations."
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"Liars corrupt knowledge, and fools pervert wisdom, but the wise hallow both. Knowledge holds the truth."
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"The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy."
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"Devil and God " two sides of the same face."
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"A moral system valid for all is basically immoral."
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"Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are."
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"No matter the joy in heaven, its coldness will make you bask beside the flames of hell."
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"Broken pencils still write beautiful songs."
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"An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity."
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"A star does not need words to tell the world what it can do, it just shines."
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"God's judgment is not like man's judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love."
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"You are an original masterpiece, imitating someone else diminishes your value."
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"There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."
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"No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools."
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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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"If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet."
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"It is still cheating, even if nobody comes."
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"Strength accomplishes sizable things. Wisdom accomplishes incredible things. Faith accomplishes remarkable things. Love accomplishes unbelievable things."
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"Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget "men who are the rule," as their exception;-- exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense."
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"It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions."
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"What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering..."
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"Clenched fists are not open to receive blessings."
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"Many of us are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. There are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly moronic, you actually feel stupid for not believing them; and it's probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt you self-doubt, you convince yourself into lame passivity and blind acceptance, you tell yourself, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here."
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"What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside."
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"Better know nothing than half-know many things."
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"We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives."
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"Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don't try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!"
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"Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise."
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"The world is full of angels; if you can't find one, be one."
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"A happy person is one who is content with nothing."
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"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
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"Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free."
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"Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent."
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"Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful."
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"Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example, ought to hear lectures from individualists and socialists, protectionists and free-traders, inflationists and believers in the gold standard. He ought to be encouraged to read the best books of the various schools, as recommended by those who believe in them. This would teach him to weigh arguments and evidence, to know that no pinion is certainly right, and to judge men by their quality rather than by their consonance with preconceptions."
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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."
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"Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar."
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"The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption."
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"Courage is a warrior, wisdom is a sage, virtue is a priest, and love is poet."
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