Quotes by Philosophers - Page 296

Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage.
Vladimir Odoyevsky
Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.
Criss Jami
If you don't build your dreams, regret will build your nightmares.
Matshona Dhliwayo
LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love.
Lao Tzu
Avoid impious people,run from fools,seek out the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
Henry David Thoreau
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because a spoon is made of gold does not change the soup’s taste.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The dreadful joy Thy Son has sentIs heavier than any care;We find, as Cain his punishment,Our pardon more than we can bear.
G.K. Chesterton
Jealousy says, “Compete with each other.” Envy says, “Destroy each other.” Empathy says, “Help each other.” Love says, “Empower each other.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.
Friedrich A. Hayek
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
Dante Alighieri
My real soul...? It’s real only when it’s independent...
Ayn Rand
To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido.
Umberto Eco
Never mind failures; they are quite natural,they are the beauty of life, these failures.What would be LIFE without them
Swami Vivekananda
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.
G.K. Chesterton
Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Horace
Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else.
Criss Jami
Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.
Robert Musil
Wisdom lies at the edge of intelligence.Joy lies at the edge of happiness.Faith lies at the edge of boldness.Love lies at the edge of kindness.God lies at the edge of righteousness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.
Jean Baudrillard
If you hide honey in the dark, bees will still find it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...
Alain de Botton
We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I understand why King Solomon asked for wisdom from God. For wisdom is like oil to a lamp, what would be the essence of having a lamp without oil in darkness?.
Gift Gugu Mona
There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it.
Ilchi Lee
There is no gem like virtue, no wealth like happiness, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a surrogate for a Higher Power.
J.P. Moreland
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.
James P. Carse
A politician is a man in his natural state
Bangambiki Habyarimana
No wonder many people dare not look closely at life: It's a horrible sight.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The road to your success is not a highway. You have to create it as you go
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly taught me that so many things that I thought were important, externals, etc., all of that is irrelevant. You lose a parent, you suddenly realize what a slender thing life is, how easily you can lose those you love. Then out of that comes a new simplicity and that is why sometimes all the pain and the tears lift you to a much higher and deeper joy when you say to the bad times, "I will not let you go until you bless me.
Jonathan Sacks
The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.(from The structure of desire and recognition)
Robert B. Brandom
No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.
Epictetus
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
Anaxagoras
If I start from a place of love, more times than not I will find what is "right," but if I start from a position of "right" I will rarely find love.
Edward Mooney
How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?
Sorin Cerin
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
Noam Chomsky
It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.
Paul Louis Couchoud
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.
Allan Bloom
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce...As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
Aldous Huxley
An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, —"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.
Jonathan Edwards
Measure your success by the number of people who envy you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A dog knows and respects his master; men respect their masters only under duress, envy them and plot their downfall.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.
Umberto Eco
Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
G.K. Chesterton
Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Friedrich A. Hayek
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.
Stefan Molyneux
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David Thoreau
optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.
Sam Harris
Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it.
Neel Burton
The excellence of the soul is understanding; for the man who understands is conscious, devoted, and already godlike.
Hermes Trismegistus
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Seneca
Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.
Matshona Dhliwayo