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Quotes by Philosopher
"If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!"
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"There is nothing uglier than an unrighteous and foolish majority!"
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"If you are too good to look after God's trash, you are not good enough to look after God's treasure."
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"You were given the problems you have because you can solve them; the burdens, because you can carry them; the trials, because you can overcome them; the opponents, because you can beat them; and the enemies, because you can conquer them."
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"Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow's sunshine."
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"Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward."
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"Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God."
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"An evil person will have evil friends. A righteous person will have righteous friends. The company you keep is hidden treasure or masked demise."
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"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."
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"I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue."
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"Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa)."
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"It is easier to lose a thosuand disciples than to win over one."
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"Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage."
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"You only need to steal a woman's heart if she won't give it to you willingly."
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"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
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"Pray daily. Pray daringly. Pray desperately. Pray determinedly."
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"The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live."
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"Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside the box do it not to puff themselves up, but to see how small they really are. As a contented fish in its fish tank appears to have a small, boring existence to us, imagine a larger, more perceptive kingdom (even by scientific taxonomy) to whom our contented existences may appear to be small and boring. This is where true creativity and massive perceptive abilities spawn a sense of intellectual humility; the kind which God adores."
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"If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people."
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"A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it."
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"For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother really-I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again."
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"There are no keys to success - only tools."
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"We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance."
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"O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!"
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"We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead."
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"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."
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"What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!"
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"Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks."
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"The entire world above you, around you, beneath you, and beside you, is insignificant in comparison to the world within you."
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"The things that scare you also always provoke you to challenge your fears!"
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"Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto."
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"High ego makes you think that you are the king of the universe while you are in fact the king of nothing!"
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"Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than our fathers were. They are two exercises that thwart and hinder one another in their vigor. Lechery weakens our stomach on the one side; and on the other sobriety renders us more spruce and amorous for the exercise of love."
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
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"My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection."
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"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."
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"Your mind is a key, and whatever it unlocks, the greatest treasure of all."
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"The writer can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ...."
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"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
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"The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we are wrapped up in our own little peeves that we begin to displace His benevolence with malevolence."
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"Philosophers have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies-with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives."
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"In every opportunity, question your beliefs. Don't forget that most of the beliefs are preposterous empty stories!"
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"Pilate's skeptical sneer 'What is truth?' was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word."
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"Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use."
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"By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!"
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"The easiest way to be the prettiest girl at a party is to rig the guest list."
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"The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind."
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"Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense."
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"There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally."
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