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Quotes by Philosopher
"You can love only when you are overflowing with joy, not when you are empty and needy."
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"They have a special confidence in Christ, plus thoughtfulness plus faithfulness plus humility: for there are no things, in all creation, more beautiful, more rare than the so very disciplined and free, joyful and principled daughters of God."
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"Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!"
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"Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people."
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"Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times."
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"Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won't be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!"
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"As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."
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"Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance."
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"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."
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"The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good."
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"In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at best only mediocre."
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"If you love a bird don't hold it too tightly or you'll soon be nursing a broken heart."
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"Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives."
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"It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be working sincerely and selflessly for the good of the people when through and through there is little monetary reward guaranteed. This is how the charlatans are weeded out of the field."
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"Ignorance shuts the mind's door tight, wisdom swings it wide open."
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"Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not to realise as hitherto the opposite of what you mean to attain: deny those good things, withdraw from them the applause of the populace and discourage the spread of them, make them once more the concealed chastities of solitary souls, and say: morality is something forbidden! Perhaps you will thus attract to your cause the sort of men who are only of any account, I mean the heroic. But then there must be something formidable in it, and not as hitherto something disgusting!"
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"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves - and other animals."
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"Before complaining about your burden of life, you must first try to see what other people's burden of life is!"
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"It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve."
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"When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine."
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"To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing."
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"We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!"
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"Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life."
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"The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin."
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"Don't be afraid of losing everything because that fear prevents you from growing."
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"Tigers cannot afford to care about what sheep think."
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"Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do."
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"A star that is determined to shine cannot be hidden, not even by darkness."
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"Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!"
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"Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet."
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"We need but little learning to live happily."
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"Please, dear God of happiness, show the radiance of your spectrum to our world, which here means to forget everything."
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"Write the masterpiece that has not been written. Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung. Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted. Create the masterpiece that has not been created."
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"His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and his thoughts were already independent to a degree few people are familiar with. He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time."
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"He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness."
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"Every Intelligent person was once a fool."
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"On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person!"
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"Scars are your greatest medals in life."
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"We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video)."
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"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."
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"There's nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish."
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"Planet Earth has rules that can't be broken, no matter how rich or poor you are. You either have a nine to five job, you're an artist constantly producing art, you're a businessman, or you stay home cleaning and taking care of children. And no matter if you're a man or a woman, the same rule applies to you. You break it, and life breaks you."
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"An ounce of wisdom can prevent a pound of folly."
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"Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing."
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"A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that something is fading away, she knows that the time is ripe for marriage. She should be careful of who she takes into her life because the union is gonna be everlasting."
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"Teach men how to fish, but also teach them how to preserve fish."
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"For the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."
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"To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!"
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