top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Philosopher
"Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day."
41
"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
41
"We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until we know whether we have the right to kill our fellow men, or the right to let them be killed. Since all contemporary action leads to murder, direct or indirect, we cannot act until we know whether, and why, we have the right to kill."
41
"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity."
41
"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms."
41
"A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false."
41
"A teaspoon of honey is worth more to the bee than a barrel of gold."
41
"It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him."
41
"There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect."
41
"I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain."
41
"One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all."
41
"What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation."
41
"We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation."
41
"The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present."
41
"The words of the world want to make sentences."
41
"No matter how many snowstorms will pass through you, none will bring you the spring like love will."
41
"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."
41
"We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit."
41
"Nature loves efficiency, which is very odd for something supposedly working at random. When you drop a ball, it falls straight down without taking any unexpected detours. When two molecules with the potential for bonding meet, they always bond- there is no room for indecision. This expenditure of least energy, also called the law of least effort, covers human beings, too. Certainly our bodies cannot escape the efficiency of the chemical processes goings on in each cell, so it is probable that our whole being is wrapped up in the same principle. This argument also applies to personal growth- the idea that everyone is doing the best he or she can from his or her own level of consciousness."
41
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
41
"Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state."
41
"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."
41
"Look for the person everyone hates, and love them."
41
"We see, surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship, the dark ocean on whose rolling waves we toss for a brief hour; all the loneliness of humanity amid hostile forces is concentrated on the individual soul, which must struggle alone, with what of courage it can command, against the whole weight of a universe that cares nothing for its hopes and fears. Victory, in this struggle with the powers of darkness, is the true baptism into the glorious company of heroes, the true initiation into the overmastering beauty of human existence."
41
"Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide."
41
"We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old."
41
"To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing."
41
"The darkest part of the storm paints the brightest part of the rainbow."
41
"Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman."
41
"Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."
41
"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."
40
"Respect your haters, they are always the first to show you that you are better than them."
40
"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."
40
"The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term."
40
"Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame."
40
"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."
40
"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."
40
"You are unique; there is no one like you in the whole universe."
40
"I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior."
40
"Walking towards love is wiser than falling into it."
40
"A star is not afraid of darkness, for its light comes from within."
40
"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."
40
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
40
"A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before."
40
"Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled."
40
bottom of page