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Quotes by Philosopher
"All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects."
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"If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own."
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"Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest."
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"Roses bloom whether you praise them or not."
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"Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time."
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"Hands move rocks, faith moves mountains."
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"Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!"
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"There is nothing wrong with being a puppet if love is the one pulling the strings."
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"Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind."
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"When turbulence hits your sails remind yourself it is an opportunity to get to the shore quicker."
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"The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them."
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"Dream what others do not. Imagine what others have not. Do what others will not. Achieve what others could not."
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"A house without security cannot be a home!"
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"Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference."
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"What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness."
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"Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies."
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"The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The closer that one's spirit is synchronized with the holy knowledge of God, the more he comprehends how and why sin is destructive to himself and others in each and every circumstance. The dwindling desire for sin is a premature gift of Heaven - where there will be no sin, where all will, too, possess that full and complete wisdom; all will have perfect reasons not to sin. In this way, free will might still exist, but the shared wisdom of God will simply outwit all desires, impulses, and needs to sin."
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"Nothing has to be done - just be alert, watchful, and the transformation happens by itself."
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"An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master."
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"Learning how to cut trees down is intelligence, learning how to grow them is wisdom."
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
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"A man with awareness lives in a world much prettier and much richer than the world a man without awareness lives in!"
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"A diamond only truly appreciates pressure the day it begins to shine."
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"When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened."
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"Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight."
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"A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!"
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"You are not a note in a symphony, you are the entire symphony in a note."
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"The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!"
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"To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom."
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"The shrewd hunt foxes, the strong hunt lions, but the mighty hunt elephants."
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"The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy."
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"A small tree with large roots will last longer than a large tree with small roots."
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"Guide impactfully. Guide impressively. Guide intuitively. Guide incredibly."
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"You are not honored for the fruit you pick, but for the trees you plant."
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"Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem."
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"Be so busy enjoying your own life that you have no time to criticize others."
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"Curtains are our prisoners, they feel free only when they escape out of the windows and fly in the air freely! The moment they wave in the wind like a proud flag is the best moment of their lives!"
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"Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine."
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"Even the devils are theists. I am of all people one of the least qualified to judge, but I do believe that some atheists are closer to God than are some theists. With Him, it is better to be distant in the mind but near in the heart than it is to be distant in the heart but near in the mind."
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"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."
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"I deny morality as I deny alchemy."
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"Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions."
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"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."
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"If you have to choose between the two hopeless situations, choose the one which gives you at least an opportunity to fight!"
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"It is impossible to graduate from the University of Life with no scars."
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"Some couples are married because they fell in love. Some are married because the woman fell pregnant."
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"If you touch a wound while it is healing, you will prolong it."
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