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Quotes by Philosopher
"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."
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"Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be."
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"Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs."
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"There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men."
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"There are defeats more triumphant than victories."
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"The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams."
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"Perfectionists are patient, the diligent are persevering, and the relentless are successful."
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"This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties."
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"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
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"Your next victory is behind your next test."
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"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."
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"A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate."
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"The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice."
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"To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just."
God,
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"Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred."
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"We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us."
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"When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so."
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"For many generations, they obeyed the laws and loved the divine to which they were akin they reckoned that qualities of character were far more important than their present prosperity. So they bore the burden of their wealth and possessions lightly, and did not let their high standard of living intoxicate them or make them lose their self-control. But when the divine element in them became weakened and their human traits became predominant, they ceased to be able to carry their prosperity with moderation."
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"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle."
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"Pick your friends like you pick your battles, wisely."
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"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy."
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"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."
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"Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia."
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"A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality."
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"Meditation is not about getting somewhere. It is about being here."
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"Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty."
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"From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla est spes, wherever it prevails, admits no other master; it no sooner speaks than probity and duty lose their weight and blind obedience is the only virtue which slaves can still practice."
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"Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy."
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"On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger."
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"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
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"Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining."
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"No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas."
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"In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations."
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"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible."
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"The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."
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"Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value."
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"The distance between success and your dreams is hard work."
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"Love is blind friendship closes its eyes."
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"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."
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"Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing."
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"When the blind lead the blind the world is full of casualties."
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"To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?"
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