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Quotes by Philosopher
"In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us."
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"It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world."
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"Greatness lies on the other side of fear."
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"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
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"You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature."
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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
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"When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!"
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"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."
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"All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!"
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"Action is king, but wisdom is queen."
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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."
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"More love, more power. Less love, less power. Great love, great power."
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"If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune."
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"Don't be afraid to go slow, only be afraid of standing still."
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"A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him."
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"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."
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"Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc."
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"Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness, with Christ it brings compassion."
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"That which does not kill me makes me stronger."
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"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal."
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"The world has enough light from the sun, but not from your mind; and the universe has enough light from the stars, but not from your soul."
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"Not every single broke and unemployed person needs a job, some need customers."
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"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."
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"There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide."
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"Real love has no expectations. It simply gives and finds joy in giving."
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"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
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"A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner, nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people."
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"Never allow temporary defeat to keep you from lasting victory."
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"There are no speed limits on the road to love, that is why some arrive instantly."
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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
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"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
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"Something good is a frontier, something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!"
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"The clever cannot catch the genius, such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!"
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"The great compete not only against others, but against themselves."
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"The great, like stars, are not afraid of dark times for that is when they shine the brightest."
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"Genius is talent set on fire."
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"Adversity is the evil twin of reward."
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"If you waste time watering a fruitless tree, fruitful ones may die of thirst."
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"We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them."
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"Cling, therefore, to this sound and wholesome plan of life; indulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. ... Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your house be a protection against inclement weather. It makes no difference whether it is built of turf or variegated marble imported from another country: what you have to understand is that thatch makes a person just as good a roof as gold."
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"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
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"You are the architect of your future, you decide whether you build a hut or a palace."
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"Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete-enemy."
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"Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps."
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"I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light."
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"The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad."
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"Right path will not always look like a right path, wrong path will not always look like a wrong path!"
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"The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money."
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