Quotes by Philosophers - Page 150

Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel de Unamuno
Timeless wisdom brings timeless blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!
Ayn Rand
Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part and parcel of nature and we cannot do without them. Sometimes evil is even necessary to run this evil nature.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.
Michel de Montaigne
The universe likes change. All that appears solid and substantial is built on the shifting sands of ceaseless transformation on the quantum level. Ironically, that’s the one steady factor about the universe - it is always changing, which means our efforts to change are supported by the very nature of Life.
Ilchi Lee
You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You will know a friendship is not natural when you don't feel relaxed with
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
There is a correlation between one’s estimation of the odds of finding a new lover who is, at the least, of the same standard as they one they’re currently in a dead relationship with, and, their attempting to revive a dead relationship.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.
Thomas More
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.
Olaf Stapledon
Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.
Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Most politicians would love to lead politically blind people.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility - the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small - the world will then know peace.
Criss Jami
The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke
The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body.
Ilchi Lee
It is not death we fear but the thought of it.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
Criss Jami
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.
Ayn Rand
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
Michel de Montaigne
We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?
Thomas More
What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.
Voltaire
By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When we quarrel how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.
Matshona Dhliwayo
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural death is the obscene mystery the ultimate affront the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag
Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it.
Gary Cox
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
Immanuel Kant
When perplexed, God appears to you in the form of wisdom; when troubled, in the form of peace; when sad, in the form of joy; when heartbroken, in the form of love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Falling in love is accidental, staying in love is intentional, and growing in love is delightful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.
Ayn Rand
If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.
Voltaire
If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.
Lao Tzu
IF a woman has manifested her love or desire, either by signs or by motions of the body,and is afterwards rarely or never seen anywhere, or if a woman is met for the first time,the man should get a go-between to approach her.
Mallanaga Vātsyāyana
When you imagine it, feel it, then write it - creation is inevitable.
T.F. Hodge
When love arrests your heart, pray she sentences it for eternity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinking must start; and thinking, which starts from this fact, is in turn itself but another form of life.
William Barrett
The greatest universe is the one within you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Now I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes
If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Everyone knows that dragons don’t exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific mind. The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact wholly unconcerned with what does exist. Indeed, the banality of existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for us to discuss it any further here. The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each non-existed in an entirely different way.
Stanisław Lem
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Marcus Aurelius
The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.
Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not a question of virtue but of effectiveness. There is no heaven. There's work to be done, that's all. And you must do what you're cut out for; all the better if it comes easy to you. The best work is not the work that takes the most sacrifice. It's the work in which you can best succeed.
Jean-Paul Sartre
A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who preserves his Dharma (virtue or religious merit), his Artha (worldly wealth) and his Kama (pleasure or sensual gratification), and who has regard to the customs of the people, is sure to obtain the mastery over his senses. In short, an intelligent and knowing person attending to Dharma and Artha and also to Kama, without becoming the slave of his passions, will obtain success in everything that he may do.
Mallanaga Vātsyāyana
We don't really want to get what we think that we want.I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will open up a new life with the mistress.Then, for some reason, the wife goes away, you lose the mistress.You thought this is all I want, when you have it there, you turn out it was a much more complex situation. It was not to live with the mistress, but to keep her as a distance as on object of desire about which you dream.This is not an excessive example, I claim this is how things function. We don't really want what we think we desire
Slavoj Žižek
The true god has no beginning and has no end, it was not begotten and cannot beget, it cannot die and resurrect. He is responsible of everything good and evil and he is the sustainer of life. If he can save he saves all without distinction
Bangambiki Habyarimana
What is once well done is done forever.
Henry David Thoreau
The desert is harsh, but persevering flowers flourish.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A storm is never quiet because it is always calling out to the rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.
Jean Vanier
To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.
Criss Jami
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
Umberto Eco
The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.
Stefan Molyneux
A river continues to flow despite losing a few drops at each turn.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin