top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Philosopher
"To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence."
44
"The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create."
44
"If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences."
44
"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."
44
"A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched."
44
"If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!"
44
"I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along."
44
"You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it."
44
"Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!"
44
"In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. His economic bondage is both brought about and concealed by the periodic sale of himself, by his change of masters, and by the oscillation in the market price of labor power. Capitalist production, therefore, under its aspect of a continuous connected process, of a process of reproduction, produces not only commodities, not only surplus value, but it also produces and reproduces the capitalist relation; on the one side the capitalist, on the other the wage-laborer."
44
"Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome."
44
"To enter the door of greatness you need the key of faith."
44
"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."
44
"The cream rises to the top, even if sour."
43
"It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension."
43
"To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away."
43
"To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You'll be way too late."
43
"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."
43
"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."
43
"Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe."
43
"Deliver thunder, GodIf you choose not to talk."
43
"Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New."
43
"Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor."
43
"A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them."
43
"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."
43
"When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!"
43
"Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work."
43
"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."
43
"Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight."
43
"A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run."
43
"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
43
"Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty."
43
"Ladies and gentlemen, when you paint your lips, eyes, nails, hair, side-beards, or whatever, to look beautiful or handsome, don't forget your up stairs, if you don't go up there to put things in order, then, consider the former attributes null and void."
43
"In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy."
43
"The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature."
43
"Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you."
43
"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."
43
"Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?"
43
"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
43
"Water has no mouth, but swallows many. Light has no hands, but touches many. Wind has no feet, but carries many. Darkness has no teeth, but devours many."
43
"I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught."
43
"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
43
"The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes."
43
"What you do for others today you have done for yourself tomorrow."
43
"Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other."
43
"One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'"
43
"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life."
43
bottom of page