Quotes by Philosophers - Page 177

Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.
Criss Jami
Head up, heart open. To better days!
T.F. Hodge
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Alan W. Watts
If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus
We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand.
Confucius
Harness your mind’s powerand you can reach the mountaintop.Harness your heart’s powerand you can reach the stars.Harness your soul’s powerand you can reach the edge of the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
And such in fact is the behaviour of the specialist. In politics, in art, in social usages, in the other sciences, he will adopt the attitude of primitive, ignorant man; but he will adopt them forcefully and with self-sufficiency, and will not admit of- this is the paradox- specialists in those matters. By specialising him, civilisation has made him hermetic and self-satisfied within his limitations; but this very inner feeling of dominance and worth will induce him to wish to predominate outside his speciality. The result is that even in this case, representing a maximum of qualification in man- specialisation- and therefore the thing most opposed to the mass-man, the result is that he will behave in almost all spheres of life as does the unqualified, the mass-man.
José Ortega y Gasset
In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and dream of themselves, and he had no great regard for human life, or womanly tears.
Will Durant
The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!
T.F. Hodge
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Simone Weil
It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences—makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.
Aristotle
Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Unless it is you, finding out who your lover’s dream lover is is a nightmare.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. The majority take the line of least resistance, preferring to have their thinking done for them; they accept ready-made individual, private doctrines as their own and follow them more or less blindly. Every generation looks upon its own creeds as true and permanent and has a mingled smile of pity and contempt for the prejudices of the past. For two hundred or more generations of our historical past this attitude has been repeated two hundred or more times, and unless we are very careful our children will have the same attitude toward us.
Alfred Korzybski
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Bruce Lee
His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can wait for success for days,you want it.If you can wait for success for weeks,you desire it.If you can wait for success for years,you need it.If you can wait for success for decades,you deserve it.If you can wait for success for a lifetime,it is already yours.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status. And, even more pointedly, to be humble is to revel in the accomplishments or potentials of others -- especially those with whom one identifies and to whom one is linked organically.
Cornel West
So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not bound by any prohibitions whose violations should make us feel guilty, the price we pay for this absence of guilt is anxiety.
Slavoj Žižek
And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.
René Descartes
It is better to be a star for one day than a moon for a lifetime.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Moments are the elements of profit
Karl Marx
One fish in your net is better than a thousand in the ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.
G.K. Chesterton
The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The specialist serves as a striking concrete example of the species, making clear to us the radical nature of the novelty. For, previously, men could be divided simply into the learned and the ignorant, those more or less the one, and those more or less the other. But your specialist cannot be brought in under either of these two categories. He is not learned , for he is formally ignorant of all that does not enter into his speciality; but neither is he ignorant, because he is "a scientist," and "knows" very well his own tiny portion of the universe. We shall have to say that he is a learned ignoramus, which is a very serious matter, as it implies that he is a person who is ignorant, not in the fashion of the ignorant man, but with an the petulance of one who is learned in his own special line.
Ortega y Gasset
They know your face, but not your mind.They understand your words, but not your heart.They hear your name, but not your soul.They grasp your past, but not your future.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.
Criss Jami
No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his.
John Stuart Mill
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.
Étienne de La Boétie
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Aristotle
To hold that the Qur’ān believes in an absolute determinism of human behavior, denying free choice on man's part, is not only to deny almost the entire content of theQu r’ān, but to undercut its very basis: the Qur’ān by its own claim is an invitation to man to come to the right path (hudan lil-nās).
Fazlur Rahman
Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings of cultural guilt. Ultimately by this the inflated media is an enemy of its very own cause.
Criss Jami
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle
The heart is a wanderer, the mind is its map; love is its destination.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Men argue nature acts.
Voltaire
The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.
Søren Kierkegaard
Genius is talent set on fire.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
Simone de Beauvoir
As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Cicero
Тhe gentle overcomes the rigid.The slow overcomes the fast.The weak overcomes the strong."…"Everyone knows that the yielding overcomes the stiff,and the soft overcomes the hard.Yet no one applies this knowledge.
Lao Tzu
Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.
Abraham Isaac Kook
So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives delight - if you can look at it without wanting the experience to be repeated, then there will be no pain, no fear, and therefore tremendous joy. It is the struggle to repeat and perpetuate pleasure which turns it into pain. Watch it in yourself. The very demand for the repetition of pleasure brings about pain, because it is not the same, as it was yesterday. You struggle to achieve the same delight, not only to your aesthetic sense but the same inward quality of the mind, and you are hurt and disappointed because it is denied to you.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is rude to tweet while having sex. However, it is not rude to have sex while tweeting.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Riches and abundance come hypocritically clad in sheep's clothing, pretending to be security against anxieties, and they become then the object of anxiety. They secure a man against anxieties just about as well as the wolf that is put to tending the sheep.
Søren Kierkegaard
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
Miguel de Unamuno
If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us.
Sorin Cerin
A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.
Jean-Paul Sartre
There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.
Jean de La Bruyère
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I
Friedrich Nietzsche
One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.
Criss Jami
In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.
William Barrett