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Quotes by Philosopher
"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."
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"Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists."
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"For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize."
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"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure."
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"An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity."
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"It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry."
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"Be selfless like a burning candle, giving of yourself to others even if it consumes you."
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"If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are."
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"Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire."
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"When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance...that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes."
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"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
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"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
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"You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future."
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"Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command."
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"A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him."
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"Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears."
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"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."
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"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."
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"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
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"The greatest illusion is the illusion of separation."
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"The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative."
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"If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song."
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"It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States."
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"Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."
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"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."
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"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."
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"Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic."
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"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
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"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."
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"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway."
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"Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception."
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"Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate."
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"Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.It has been objected, that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work."
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"Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders."
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"Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values."
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"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
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"The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification."
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"When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie."
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"Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself."
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"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart."
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"Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men a search for their cause a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement."
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"A diamond is pressure's masterpiece."
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"The sweetest victories come after the bitterest defeats."
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