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Quotes by Philosopher
"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."
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"He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both."
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"All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?"
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"Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly."
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"There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations."
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"We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible."
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"Don't let past disappointments rob you of future happiness."
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"If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!"
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"The door to success may be in front of you, but you still have to open it."
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"You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams."
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"To patch up a relationship, understanding is the needle, and love is the thread."
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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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"A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even to the great souls."
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"The Christian who loves his Master needs not fear any longer for himself. For it is then completely irrational, as it is written thus: 'Perfect love casts out fear.' However, it is very much rational for one to instead fear for the enemies of God."
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"Knowledge comes naturally with studying, and with God's touch, instantly. Wisdom comes naturally with age, and with God's touch, immediately."
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"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
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"Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world."
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"A wise person makes one error, and learns ten lessons. He makes two errors, and learns twenty lessons. He makes three errors, and learns thirty lessons. He makes few errors, and learns countless lessons."
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
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"Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!"
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"Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than."
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"If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine."
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"If you can endure anything, you can become anything."
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"Everyone should have a place in your heart, but only a special few should have a place in your life."
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"Who can be worried without the light of a memory?"
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"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
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"If you ask God for love, He may give you someone to forgive. If you ask God for patience, He may give you someone to bear."
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"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."
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"People ask what will happen if Mars One fails. There will be Mars Two, Mars Three, there will be Gliese 581 One, Proxima Centauri b One etc. If a project opens the path for other projects, it means that it has already triumphed!"
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"People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives."
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"Intelligence without wisdom is like a hook without bait."
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"You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only 'now' in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!"
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"One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves."
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"I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for."
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"Love is louder than anger, even in silence."
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"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"
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"Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything."
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"It is impossible for darkness to reign in the presence of a star."
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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."
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"Holding onto your dreams is better than holding onto your nightmares."
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"Who knows the life which does not burn its own time moments?"
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"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
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"Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or inspired by the religious hypothesis is in no way different from that dictated by the naturalistic hypothesis, then religious faith is a pure superfluity, better pruned away, and controversy about its legitimacy is a piece of idle trifling, unworthy of serious minds. I myself believe, of course, that the religious hypothesis gives to the world an expression which specifically determines our reactions, and makes them in a large part unlike what they might be on a purely naturalistic scheme of belief."
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"In solitude, you will find yourself; in crowds, you will find others! You need both of them: Solitude and crowds; yourself and others! Without others, what to do with yourself? Without yourself, what to do with others?"
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"Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech."
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"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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