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Quotes by Philosopher
"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."
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"Creating is the closest thing to being immortal."
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"The tram's fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate!"
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"A year of contentment is worth more than ten of prosperity."
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"When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!"
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"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"
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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
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"A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!"
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"Never keep score in marriage, your wife is going to win anyway."
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"Don't be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up."
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"We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!"
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"Most if not all sexually active people do not really love having sex, they merely love experiencing an orgasm every now and then."
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"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."
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"You are what you think, not what others think of you."
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"Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker."
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"The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you."
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"Welcome the righteous, avoid the wicked, and yet open both arms to the repentant. Whoever receives them receives God."
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"Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down."
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"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."
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"One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine."
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"You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you!"
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"No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country!"
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"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."
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"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."
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"A truth can never be borrowed. It has to be discovered."
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"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."
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"The best way to learn is through direct experience."
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"Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark."
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"If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one."
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"Far places and difficult things do not gently invite people to come to themselves, but they so to say pull people forcefully to themselves with some kind of mystical magnets!"
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"Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly."
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"The priest gazed around my cell and answered in a voice that sounded very weary to me. 'Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.'This perked me up a little. I said I had been looking at the stones in these walls for months. There wasn't anything or anyone in the world I knew better. Maybe at one time, way back, I had searched for a face in them. But the face I was looking for was as bright as the sun and the flame of desire-and it belonged to Marie."
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"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
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"Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master."
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"The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection."
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"Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one's emotions' attempt to contaminate one's opinions."
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"If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake!"
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"To lose a worthless friend is worthy of a testimony."
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"Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided."
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"One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch."
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"If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money."
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"When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice."
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"Some men do not know the father of 'their' children."
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"An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly."
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"Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as meaningful as a few germs being angry at humans about bleach."
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"You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself."
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"In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history."
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"The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body."
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"An ounce of joy is the equivalent of a ton of happiness."
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