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Quotes by Philosopher
"The greatest profit you make in business is not money, but happiness. The greatest riches you give in life are not possessions, but love. The greatest treasures you acquire in life are not jewels, but joy."
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"On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow of a tree, their peace untroubled by footsteps or a dog's bark, glimmered in the pale recession. The silent city was no more than an assemblage of huge, inert cubes, between which only the mute effigies of great men, carapaced in bronze, with their blank stone or metal faces, conjured up a sorry semblance of what the man had been. In lifeless squares and avenues these tawdry idols lorded it under the lowering sky; stolid monsters that might have personified the rule of immobility imposed on us, or, anyhow, its final aspect, that of a defunct city in which plague, stone, and darkness had effectively silenced every voice."
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
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"You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!"
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"If you have much, be generous; if you have little, be grateful; even if you have nothing, be hopeful."
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"In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!"
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"You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy's book!"
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"In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer."
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"Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!"
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"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."
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"If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved."
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"Work keeps us occupied. Faith keeps us fortified. Hope keeps us gratified. Love keeps us satisfied."
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"In life you have always the choice to leave the shadowy places and head towards the illuminated locations!"
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"I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind."
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"A tuna can only boast in a pond, but a whale can boast even in the ocean."
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"If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up!"
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"The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises."
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"If your love for your wife can be measured, it is not big enough."
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"No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining!"
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"Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love."
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"A bird does not give up flying today because it couldn't find any worms yesterday."
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"Do not trust everyone who smiles at you; some admire your achievements, but some misunderstand them, and many more envy them. Jealousy is like the sky: everywhere on everyone."
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"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!"
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"The only difference between you and the star is that you shine below, and the other shines above: Wherever you are located, You are a star!"
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"You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up."
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"If you stuck in the past, you won't be able to step in the future!"
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"To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being."
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"A bitter critic is the sweetest corrector."
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"Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure."
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"If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train."
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"Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!"
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"The distance between you and your destination can be set to zero only by your courage to act and by your determination to sustain this action till the end!"
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"Small bait cast properly can catch big fish."
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"When you choose your life, ignore people, when you make it in life, remember some friends, when you sing a song, praise your source, when predicaments arises, stand your ground."
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"It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend."
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"The wise are like a river; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward."
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"A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them."
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"Nature has two powers: Her own physical power and the spiritual power of her beauty!"
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"The bad chapters of your life lead to the good ones if you keep turning the pages."
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"When bad things happen to you, become wiser, not bitter."
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"Stop looking for happiness outside, it is within you."
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"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
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"Your mind is greater than your problems, your heart is greater than your troubles, your soul is greater than your temptations, and your God is greater than your obstacles."
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"Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order."
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"Believe in the hope of your Life Illusion because this is the only real thing that you posses!"
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"How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?"
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"When you love you give meaning to this world."
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