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Quotes by Philosopher
"So it came to this, that- against the grain, no doubt-the condemned man had to hope the apparatus was in good working order! This, I thought, was a flaw in the system; and, on the face of it, my view was sound enough. On the other hand, I had to admit it proved the efficiency of the system. It came to this; the man under sentence was obliged to collaborate mentally, it was in his interest that all should go off without a hitch."
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"What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman's heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished!"
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"Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise."
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"The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world."
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"A pearl never loses its value, not even when covered with dirt."
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"It is typical of Zen that its style of action has the strongest feeling of commitment, of "follow-through." It enters into everything wholeheartedly and freely without having to keep an eye on itself. It does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
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"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."
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"I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere."
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"You are like a seed; your greater beauty lies not on the outside, but within."
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"...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves."
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"You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it."
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"And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be?"
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"What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!"
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"Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence."
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"Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them."
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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"You don't command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails."
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"If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall."
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"Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes."
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"The soul's joys are greater than the heart's pleasures."
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"Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ignorance. I still haven't found an explanation for ignorance, because the ignorant are too ignorant to justify their ignorance."
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"Music gives inspiration...one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty ideas."
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"Without doing one cannot fail. But one cannot succeed either."
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"The soul's garden is watered by love's rivers."
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"In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30."
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"Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you enter there, your face and your heart is forever sealed with the devilish ugliness of the violence!"
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"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
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"If you are happy with your past, you visit it often; and strangely, if you are unhappy with your past, you visit it often too!"
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"Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts."
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"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science."
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"It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively."
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"The heart is a wanderer, the mind is its map; love is its destination."
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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
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"How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle's egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?"
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"Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours."
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"The forefront is not the arena of winners, stay where you are, wherever you are, when its your time, you'll speed off like a psycopath."
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"Rise in your mind and you will rise in your world."
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"When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly, with the same attitude I remember was present just before I found that sheared pin. It was that attitude that found it, nothing else."
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"No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!"
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"Storms come to teach trees and plants how to dance in the wind."
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"Confuse them with your intelligence, baffle them with your excellence, bewilder them with your brilliance, and perplex them with your transcendence."
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"The calmest part of the storm is not in its eye, but in your own soul."
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"Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different."
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"Water wrestles great opponents, but has no hands, and tramples great rivals, but has no feet. It slips through our fingers, but can swallow entire towns. Wind also slips through our fingers, but can swallow entire cities."
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"Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first step; it is the first action; it is the first move before any move, it is the first of everything!"
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"Quiet love is better than loud hate."
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"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
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