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Quotes by Philosopher
"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
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"Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!"
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"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"
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"You may hear bad words but you always use soft words that carry the air of flowers!"
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"It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!"
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"You don't need to move mountains when love will fly you over."
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"In the beauty of the mornings we forget about the night; in the beauty of the night we forget about the mornings! When you meet the beauty, you drop anchor in the present time and all other times disappear from your mind!"
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"When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness."
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"A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it!"
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"Soil is earth's barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!"
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"You want more light in your house? Enlarge your windows! You want more truth in your life? Doubt everything!"
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"A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places, they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights."
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"Smile is a good reply to the dark world."
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"When the wind blows, curtain steps aside; when the genius blows, the intelligent stands aside!"
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"More gates you open, more worlds you discover! More worlds you discover, more gates are opened!"
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"If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world."
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"Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself."
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"It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune."
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"It would seem that to be incapable of sitting and watching with the mind completely at rest is to be incapable of experiencing the world in which we live to the full. For one does not know the world simply in thinking about it and doing about it. One must first experience it more directly, and prolong the experience without jumping to conclusions."
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"We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poisoned by the misery of the century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But superhuman is the term for tasks [we] take a long time to accomplish, that's all."
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"Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it's some kind of 'knack' or some kind of 'affinity for machines' in operation. They are right, but the knack is almost purely a process of reason, and most of the troubles are caused by what old time radio men called a 'short between the earphones,' failures to use the head properly. A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself."
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"Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical."
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"A rose struggling in a desert is still braver than a flower flourishing in a rain forest."
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"Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them. But who knows such love? who has experienced it? Its true name is friendship."
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"A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!"
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"There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former."
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"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."
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"Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings."
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"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others."
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"Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!"
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"Life hands us storms so we can paint rainbows."
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"The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public."
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"Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine."
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"The grass is always green if God is watering it."
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"Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror."
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"Some sit and watch the life, some sail to the sea and the life watches them!"
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"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."
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"Don't let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn't be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier."
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"The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together."
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"When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar."
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"I don't see anything other than pretensions and low mentality in women who make a man run after a hole that would soon be inhabited by termites and worms."
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"Nothing can create more dramatic changes than simple and pure love and compassion. When people pray, their prayers are listened, but the answers manifest in forms that their selfishness blinds them to see."
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"Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one."
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"To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life."
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"When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen!"
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"There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!"
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"We can't remember things from our future, remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!"
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"But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best."
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