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Quotes by Philosopher
"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."
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"Time stops when you are in love, even as you age."
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"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise."
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"No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language."
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"Starving whilst schooled is like a man's finding out that his wife is on her periods - a few seconds after he took Viagra."
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"Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion."
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"It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough."
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"I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another."
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"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."
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"No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so."
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"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."
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"It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity."
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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions, they cease to be mind."
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"A bird cannot fly upward if each wing is flapping in a different direction."
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"It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims."
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"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck."
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"As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again."
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"The greater the number of fish a river bears the greater the number of fishermen that patronize it."
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"Learn from stars; even in the dark they give off light, not despair."
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"Periods are a period when nature forces prostitutes to go on leave."
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"A confession has to be part of your new life."
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"A star needs a star."
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"Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me."
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"One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off."
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"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."
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"How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?"
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"The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics."
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"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom."
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"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."
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"Education has for its object the formation of character."
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"Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!"
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"Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person."
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"The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life."
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"You were born to be real, not to be perfect."
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"To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion."
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"The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter."
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"No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day."
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"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly."
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"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."
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"When the nest becomes too small a bird is ready to spread its wings and fly."
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"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean."
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"All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery."
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"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."
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"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back."
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"Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness."
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"The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows."
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