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Quotes by Philosopher

"If you want to be happy now, love now; if you want to be happy later, love later; but if you want to be happy always, love always."

"Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth."

"A journey deep into the Kingdom of Nature is always a mysterious journey, a Sufistic voyage, a spiritual trip!"

"All the stars in the sky cannot worth as much as yours only because it belongs to you."

"You can either be creative or competitive, but not both."

"You learn the value of water when the rivers are dry. You learn the value of light when the winters are prolonged. You learn the value of food when the fields are bare."

"What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God."

"Grass is food for elephants, but a cushion for lions."

"Small caterpillars still become big butterflies."

"Who can say that he is not everything?"

"Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them."

"People assume that repetition is always a static thing, but I beg to differ. Repetition is just as often the complete opposite of that: or a sign of rapid personal growth. In this repetition manifests one's ability to go on experiencing again the very same thing from a different perspective and in a brand-new light."

"Enlarge your windows till you get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!"

"Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several individuals, the planned cooperation of many thousands, civilization, the State; and then, science, the storing up of previous experience, the summarizing into one concept of what is common, the communication of truth, the spreading of error, thoughts and poems, dogmas and superstitions. The animal learns to know death only when he dies, but man consciously draws every hour nearer his death; and at times this makes life a precarious business, even to the man who has not already recognized this character of constant annihilation in the whole of life itself."

"True riches belong to those who shun false ones."

"There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."

"One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day."

"Don't be an escort to people on their way to success, for it is equally as if you're a sign post, leading the way, and rusting at the end."

"Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil."

"Every single moment is a travel into the unknown!"

"The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge or of a strong, firmly rooted delusion; even to imaginesuch a state of things is painful to us! Restless discovering and divining has such an attraction for us, and has grown as indispensable to us as is to the lover his unrequited love, which he would at no price relinquish for a state of indifference " perhaps,indeed, we too are unrequited lovers."

"Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!"

"I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for."

"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."

"The greatest you is found in the kindest you."

"Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful."

"If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless."

"The moments you feel to give up your life can create the best moments to grasp fully the meaning of your life!"

"From rocks come gold. From coal comes diamonds. From oysters come pearls. From caterpillars come butterflies. From adversity come the great."

"If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!"

"The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them."

"The train may fall in love with a station, but it has to go and it goes! Don't be like the train; stay at the station you fell in love, go nowhere!"

"He who has love in his heart has the universe in his hands."

"Differences about poor and rich people: Poor people ask me where's my money from, Rich people invite me for a coffee and never ask it."

"The uglier the storm the lovelier the rainbow."

"If he's not a wreck without you, you married the wrong man."

"We are terrified by the idea of being terrified."

"Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!"

"Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do."

"Adventure is the best way to feel the reality thoroughly!"

"If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!"

"You are God's chisel, it is you He uses to create masterpieces."

"A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust."

"Obstacles must be overcome. Problems must be solved. Doubt must be resisted. Fear must be defeated."

"If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won't change!"

"An angel who makes you cry is better than a devil who makes you smile."

"When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!"

"Small steps of faith add up to great leaps of success."

"There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility."
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