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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins."
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"The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary."
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"God has a hundred percent success rate in all that He does."
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"Moments of thinking are your military moments because they are the moments where you take the opportunity to attack and eliminate your problems!"
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"We inter-change ideas. You can stay in the United States and inspire people in Indonesia. You can stay in Ghana and inspire people in Turkey. You can stay in Nigeria and inspire people in cote'd voire. You can stay in Senegal and inspire people in China and vice versa."
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"Do not expect peace with the enemy whose worth you do not recognize."
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"The loudest preacher in the world is your conscience, the cleverest is wisdom, the rowdiest is passion, the surest is truth, the purest is love, and the highest is God."
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"Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow."
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"Your life belongs to you, don't let others control it."
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"We often use the Bible as a source for personal validation and defense, a sidekick and a shield, but these will prove ineffective without first the other part. We must also allow ourselves to be wounded by it. We tend to forget its authority - that it is a double-edged sword. Our decrepit, depraved hearts must be completely ripped out in order to welcome that of God."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
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"A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!"
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"Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten."
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"People are vaccinated with dangerous chemicals during their childhood, indoctrinated with immorality through television while growing up, taught to reject God by their teachers, fed with genetically modified food, and led to suspect others by their relatives and friends, and then you wonder why it's so difficult to find a normal person in this modern world, why nobody assumes responsibility for their words and behavior, and why everyone is so selfishly abusive. The biblical apocalypse has begun and the zombies are everywhere. It's just that we call them stupid and selfish instead. But they do act like there's no life inside of them anymore. There are no more normal human beings around. The survivors of this apocalypse are extremely scarce and must be treasured."
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"I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis."
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"A gullible dreamer is better than an expert doubter."
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"Dear fear, I'm divorcing you. Dear courage, I'm courting you. Dear hope, I'm pursuing you. Dear love, I'm marrying you."
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"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."
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"There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it."
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"The deepest reason why the Church is weak and the world is dying is that there are not enough saints. No, that's not quite honest. The reason is that WE are not saints."
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"Think like the great, speak like the great, act like the great, and you will become like the great."
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"Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth."
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"Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with."
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"A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value."
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"I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless."
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"The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!"
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"Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes."
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"If we are of one mind, thousands can be conquered. If we are of one heart, millions can be conquered. If we are of one soul, countless can be conquered."
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
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"Moments of love and compassion are the only immortal moments in human being's life! We humans are mortals with immortal moments!"
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"It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure."
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"If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar."
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"In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people!"
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"Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on."
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"Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend."
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"Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them."
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"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."
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"A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs."
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"Trees make man happy in thousands of different ways; in return, man hurts the trees in thousands of different ways! What an honourable being man is!"
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"Love lost is better than hate found. True criticism is better than false praise. Genuine enemies are better than counterfeit friends."
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"The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough."
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"I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy, but owing to some imperative necessity of action."
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"Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, "Either I am much deceived,or by your cheerful and pleasant countenances, you are engaged in no very deep discourse. To which one of them, Heracleon the Megarean, replied: " 'Tis for such as are puzzled about inquiring whether the future tense of the verb Ballo be spelt with adouble L, or that hunt after the derivation of the comparatives Cheirou and Beltiou, and the superlatives Cheiriotou and Beliotou, to knit their brows whilst discoursing of their science; but as to philosophical discourses, they always divert and cheer up those that entertain them, and never deject them or make them sad."
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"The best way to overcome your weaknesses is to turn them into strengths."
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"Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."
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"All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness."
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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
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"As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate."
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