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Quotes by Philosopher
"The most beautiful jewelry in the world is not a diamond necklace, but two hearts beating as one."
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"The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies."
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"The most perfect magic for a child is the touch of a loving hand!"
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"Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness."
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"Ideas doesn't make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich."
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"Sincere wishes come true."
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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride."
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"If you want to punish a sage lock him in the same room with a fool."
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"The greater your wisdom, the shorter the distance to success."
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"Love in the rain is better than hate in the sunshine."
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"If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only one duty, and that is to love."
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"If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against anything."
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"If you place two flowers in the same vase, they will not argue over who is more beautiful."
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"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
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"There is no sunset in a fascist country, because there is not a Sun in a fascist country!"
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"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."
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"A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them."
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"The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil."
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"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."
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"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth."
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"All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within."
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"Reflection is a blessing and reflection happens not only when one sees himself on a mirror or on the windowpane or on a puddle, but it also happens when someone criticises you! In every true critique made on you, you will see yourself and you will obtain a good chance to make corrections on yourself! Reflection happens even in the books you read! Reflection is a blessing; when it happens, you discover yourself, you face yourself!"
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"Pressure is an artist, diamonds are its masterpiece."
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"The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive."
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"Girls, watch out for the bad guys!...there are those capable of showering their resources on you just to dance on top of you, and finally destroy your good image and reputation."
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"Use the arrows failure throws at you to hunt for success."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
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"Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done."
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"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."
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"Business is warfare, don't get into it if you are afraid to draw blood."
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"I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength."
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"Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing."
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"Work hard to gain the heart of the people; if you gain it, you will gain everything else!"
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"It is better to be a star for one day than a moon for a lifetime."
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"For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing."
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"We hope that we will live only because we must be with God, as alive as He is."
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"Learn, because life is ahead of you. Live, because death is before you. Listen, because wisdom is all around you. Love, because God is inside of you."
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"You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!"
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"Truth in Christ is not a matter of being near or far like in martial arts when you strive for a black belt. He saves us then we grow, not the other way around."
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"So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience."
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"Small steps add up to complete big journeys."
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"There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan."
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"It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says."
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"On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness."
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"Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings of cultural guilt. Ultimately by this the inflated media is an enemy of its very own cause."
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"We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!"
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"Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the problem is reversed. It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning. Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully. Now, no one will live this fate, knowing it to be absurd, unless he does everything to keep before him that absurd brought to light by consciousness."
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