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Quotes by Philosopher
"Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student."
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"The misuse of language induces evil in the soul."
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"If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master."
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"Understanding is to knowledge what the flesh is to the body. Insight is to wisdom what life is to the soul."
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"It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing?' It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace."
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"A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind."
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"A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains."
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"Man with right thinking is awake and can see everything, man with wrong thinking is asleep and can see nothing!"
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"But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of thought. Yet the concrete evidence of such an intelligence is right to hand in our own thoughtlessly ordered bodies. For the Tao does not 'know' how it produces the universe just as we do not 'know' how we construct our brains."
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"In order that there may be institutions, there must be a kind of will, instinct, or imperative, which is anti-liberal to the point of malice: the will to tradition, to authority, to responsibility for centuries to come, to the solidarity of chains of generations, forward and backward ad infinitum."
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"Fear usually benefits the feared, seldom the fearful."
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"Negative thoughts have dirty feet, don't let even the least of them set foot in your mind."
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"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
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"If God had a wife He would be in just as much trouble as any man."
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"Love in this life is expanded by our anticipation of the next life. Those who love under God are never satisfied with small love, or love bound by the flaws of human emotion. Those who love under God dream of another life where they can experience it and live it in God's perfect form, so they seek to build it in this life as much as possible."
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"The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up."
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"You can be happy even if your bones are broken, but no man is happy when his heart is heavy."
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"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
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"Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has a much greater capacity to prevent the stupid from halting the progression of humanity because - though they are rare - they are tactical and intelligent!"
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"We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach."
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"Teach yourself. Help yourself. Improve yourself. Enrich yourself."
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"A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy."
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"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."
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"The most beautiful temple in the universe is your soul, that is why God wants to dwell in it."
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"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
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"Acquaintances are numerous. Friends are few. Enemies many."
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"That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart."
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"What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted."
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"The Epistle of our being is written with letters full of blood drained from the love of God's Word."
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"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."
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"We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom."
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"But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air."
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"Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn."
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"Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules."
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"Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal."
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"Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss."
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"Dance to the beat of your own drum, whether the world likes your rhythmic movements or not."
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"These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief."
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"I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or for fame, or power, or any of these inferior things, but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity. For it was from lust of power that the Angels fell, from lust of knowledge that man fell, but of charity there can be no excess, neither did angel or man come in danger by it."
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"False love can be bought, true love is priceless."
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"There are two kinds of warriors: those on the battlefield, and those in the boardroom; both are out to win. But the age of King Alexander has gone, and the age of Bill Gates has come."
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"For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys."
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"A celebrity's body is an advertiser's canvas."
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"We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer distinction between the true and the false, between the man of the future and the cowardly gods you revere."
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"Men who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact."
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"Money is a great servant but a bad master."
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"He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me."
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"You can never leave a place unless you leave that place in your mind!"
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