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Quotes by Philosopher
"No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ."
89
"Forget the past, it is dead. The future is unknown. Live in the now."
89
"Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy."
88
"Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny."
88
"I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore."
88
"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."
88
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
88
"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child."
87
"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
87
"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
87
"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?"
87
"What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges? Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules. And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action?"
86
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
86
"The maturity of man-that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play."
86
"When you are in love, your eyes see him only, your ears hear him only, your mouth speaks of him only, your mind thinks of him only, your heart desires him only, your soul lives for him only, and your entire universe is about him only."
86
"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."
86
"The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself."
85
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
85
"Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life."
85
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
85
"Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory... Everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion - it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from."
85
"I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go ."
85
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
84
"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."
84
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
84
"Do not hold grudges against those who try to keep you down; the higher you go, the smaller they become. Do not trust those who try to push you down once you are up; the more envious they are, the more dangerous they become."
84
"A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling."
84
"The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character."
84
"The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation."
83
"Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman."
83
"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable."
83
"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."
Will,
83
"Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity."
83
"The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear."
83
"The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long."
83
"The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages , they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil."
83
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
83
"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price."
83
"The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason."
82
"My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions."
82
"The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them."
82
"Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream."
82
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