Quotes by Philosophers - Page 100

To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.
William James
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G.K. Chesterton
An arm bar in a vacuum is worthless. It is the realization of the truths which constitute that arm bar that is the real treasure we seek.
Chris Matakas
With regard to navigating relationship's highways and bi-ways - avoid changing lanes without first giving a signal.
T.F. Hodge
If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Realize clarity from calamity.
T.F. Hodge
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucius
Without roots a tree, no matter how tall, cannot stand.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.
Alan W. Watts
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
Meister Eckhart
Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design... To attribute an event to design is to say that it cannot reasonably be referred to either regularity or chance.
William A. Dembski
The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.
Thomas Carlyle
You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Part of the Maoist project was the deliberate construction of a new moral identity. To do this it was necessary to destroy people’s previous sense of who they were and to make sure there was no room for it grow back.
Jonathan Glover
It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard
A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love. A community is alive when it is poor and its members feel they have to work together and remain united, if only to ensure that they can all eat tomorrow!
Jean Vanier
The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.
Jean-Yves Leloup
A thousand ways to please your wife boil down to two words: “Yes, dear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We do not have bodies—we are bodies! What could possibly be wrong with that form of consciousness? It is all energy anyways.
Christopher Zzenn Loren
all the existentialists concur that it is through our choices that we become who we are.
Gordon Marino
The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.
Henry David Thoreau
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Epicurus
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.
G.K. Chesterton
The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.
Peter Kreeft
Never create doubt in a person. Doubts have the habit of hanging around even if the original cause is over. Doubt never wants to be caught unawares again
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.
Criss Jami
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Thomas Paine
Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
Love is the most beautiful flower in the garden of life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) – not only are they better, but they have a “better time”, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can’t bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated – it seems to me just to stink of lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am smart because I know I nothing.
Plato
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber
...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?
Henry David Thoreau
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.
Herbert Marcuse
I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
Rabindranath Tagore
It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the reader.Moral: there exist obsessive ideas, they are never personal; books talk among themselves, and any true detection should prove that we are the guilty party.
Umberto Eco
Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
If i am asked 'what is good? my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter. Or if I am asked 'How is good to be defined?' my answer is that it cannot be defined, and that is all I have to say about it
G.E. Moore
Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....
Aldous Huxley
All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.
Seneca
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
Miguel de Unamuno
In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other.That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art.
Ayn Rand
One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.
Denis Diderot
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda
But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?
Nikos Kazantzakis
Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I leave this world? When can I learn what I have here neglected to learn? Or is it true that death will cut off and put an end to all care and all feeling? This is something to be inquired into.But no, this cannot be true. It is not for nothing, it is not meaningless that all over the world is displayed the high and towering authority of the Christian faith. Such great and wonderful things would never have been done for us by God, if the life of the soul were to end with the death of the body. Why then do I delay? Why do I not abandon my hopes of this world and devote myself entirely to the search for God and for the happy life?
Augustine of Hippo
Your mind has the intellect to lift the world,your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius to elevate the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
Friedrich Nietzsche
This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough,--I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race...
Friedrich Nietzsche
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men are born truthful and die liars.
Vauvenargues
Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technology provides to do more with less, and indiscriminately for everyone. Return to nature as nature pre-technologically was, attractive and possible as it still in some places is, can only work for some of us.
John Cage
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion
Francis Bacon