Quotes by Philosophers - Page 112

One who criticises capitalism while approving of immigration, of which the working class is its first victim, would do better to remain silent. One who criticises immigration while remaining silent regarding capitalism should do the same.
Alain de Benoist
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I have thus found remote analogies and relations which others have not considered! Others rarely make these confusions, and proceed by precise analysis.
Kenneth J.W. Craik
Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat inside one in which someone else has just farted, even if the room does not have a toilet.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I learned a world from each / one whom I loved
Allen Ginsberg
In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.
Friedrich Schiller
Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.
Guy Debord
The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.
Thomas Aquinas
You should love yourself to an extent where you can't let anyone take advantage of you, no matter who they are.
Gift Gugu Mona
Gaiety alone as it were is the hard cash of happiness everything else is just a promissory note.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It’s not how much material things you have hoarded that will make you happy but how satisfied you are with what you have so far. A rich person can be the poorest wreck if he is not satisfied with what he already has and a materially poor can be happy if he is satisfied with the little he has.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
Solomon ibn Gabirol
Following your dreams is better than being led by your fears.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.
Peter Kreeft
How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.
Bruce Lee
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
Confucius
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Seneca
This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.
Criss Jami
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
It is the brain's full and absolute responsibility to evolve, nobody will do it for it, and grace and salvation do not exist. The brain must take its place as the source of grace and learn to operate itself properly. In fact, its transformation will begin when it will bear all responsibility alone.
Shai Tubali
Well, you're free without wanting to be,' he explained, 'it just happens so, that's all. But Mathieu's freedom is based on reason.''I still don't understand,' said Lola, shaking her head.'Well, he doesn't care a curse about his apartment: he lives there just as he would live anywhere else, and I've got the feeling that he doesn't care much about his girl. He stays with her because he must sleep with someone. His freedom isn't visible, it's inside him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Rainbows can’t rise without storms.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What you conquer in your youth is your trophy in adulthood.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God… then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) - the standard of self-law or autonomy. And when autonomous laws come to govern a commonwealth, the sword is certainly wielded in vain, for it represents simply the brute force of some men’s will against the will of other men.
Greg L. Bahnsen
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
René Descartes
I am a sailor, you're my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail For the heart's treasure, together we set sail With no maps to guide us, we steered our own course Rode out the storms when the winds were gale force Sat out the doldrums in patience and hope Working together, we learned how to cope. Life is an ocean and love it a boat In troubled waters it keeps us afloat When we started the voyage there was just me and you Now gathered round us we have our own crew Together we're in this relationship We built it with care to last the whole trip Our true destination's not marked on any chart We're navigating the shores of the heart
John McDermott
…questioning the existence of God may begin because of one’s sense of disappointment rather than because of a line of reasoning. Disappointment can bring disillusionment, and disillusionment can get quite a grip on us. It may be the case that, next to the grip of disillusionment, whatever reasons we can think of to believe that God exists or that God is good will appear weak. So sometimes the reason we do not believe or the reason we stop believing is not the intellectual challenge to believing in God. Sometimes, the grip of disillusionment cannot be matched by things that seem to be only abstract or theoretical.
Gregory E. Ganssle
Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
It is in virtue that happiness consists for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.
Zeno
Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We fail so easily to see the difference between fear of the unknown and respect for the unknown, thinking that those who do not hasten in with bright lights and knives are deterred by a holy and superstitious fear. Respect for the unknown is the attitude of those who, instead of raping nature, woo her until she gives herself. But what she gives, even then, is not the cold clarity of the surface but the warm inwardness of the body - a mysteriousness which is not merely a negation, a blank absence of knowledge, but that positive substance which we call wonderfull.
Alan W. Watts
The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude.
Neel Burton
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
G.K. Chesterton
When you look up and don’t see the stars, the universe may have cleared the sky for you to replace them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts, and the majority of people, little accustomed to think, has little of it.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.
Kedar Joshi
Walking: it hits you at first like an immense breathing in the ears. You feel the silence as if it were a great fresh wind blowing away clouds. There’s the silence of woodland. Clumps and groves of trees form shifting, uncertain walls around us. We walk along existing paths, narrow winding strips of beaten earth. We quickly lose our sense of direction. That silence is tremulous, uneasy. Then there’s the silence of tough summer afternoon walks across the flank of a mountain, stony paths, exposed to an uncompromising sun.
Frédéric Gros
I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
Henry David Thoreau
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.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
George Santayana
He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience?
Will Durant
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Voltaire
Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.
Augustine of Hippo
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
Blaise Pascal
A wise man is a student though he is a teacher.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.
Peter Boghossian
The body cannot be afraid of death. The movement that is created by society or culture is what does not want to come to an end. . . . What you are afraid of is not death. In fact, you don't want to be free from fear. . . . It is the fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead. What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new science, new talk, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks. Fear is the very thing that you do not want to be free from. What you call “yourself” is fear. The “you” is born out of fear; it lives in fear, functions in fear and dies in fear.
U.G. Krishnamurti
Love, no matter how small, begets kindness.Joy, no matter how small, begets cheerfulness.Wisdom, no matter how small, begets intelligence.Faith, no matter how small, begets persistence.Genius, no matter how small, begets excellence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Learning without thought is labor lost.
Confucius
Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.
Dagobert D. Runes
I played with children so that I could learn from them.
Shinichi Suzuki
My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates
Socrates