Quotes by Philosophers - Page 302

Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who're touched, put 'em in asylums. Pack off old ones to 'senior communities,' nursing homes. Our children? Keep'em prisoner, baby-sitter as warden. School? Good for fifteen to twenty years. Army afterward. Liberated, we live in prison. No this, no that. Kill us before we die!
John Cage
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G.K. Chesterton
Love is like lightening; it can strike anyone, anywhere, and at any time.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Death is a continuation of my life without me...
Jean-Paul Sartre
What does one do with experience? Do we react negatively, or do we (pro)create from the space of positivity?
T.F. Hodge
Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...
Rabindranath Tagore
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century
Charles de Montesquieu
Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle
Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.
Eric Hoffer
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to govern the people,You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people,You must learn how to follow them.
Lao Tzu
Some people would not have remained with their partners, if the unfortunate things that have happened to them had happened to their partners, or if the fortunate things that have happened to their partners had happened to them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
Blaise Pascal
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle
Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.
Dagobert D. Runes
Overrated is order.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.
Henry David Thoreau
A day with a sage will save you a thousand of study.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t let past disappointments rob you of future happiness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.
Michel de Montaigne
The best ideas are common property
Seneca
Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.
Immanuel Kant
Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as meaningful as a few germs being angry at humans about bleach.
Criss Jami
Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We are what we do.
Erich Fromm
You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.
T.F. Hodge
Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
Karl Marx
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
War does one good—it teaches people geography.
Will Durant
Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, and graced by the Renaissance - as -the- tradition in art, or even any longer as distinctly and uniquely -ours-. That canon is in fact only one tradition among many, and indeed in its strict adherence to representational form is rather the exception in the whole gallery of -human- art. Such an extension of the resources of the past, for the modern artist, implies a different and more comprehensive understanding of the term "human" itself: a Sumerian figure of a fertility goddess is as "human" to us as a Greek Aphrodite. When the sensibility of an age can accommodate the alien "inhuman" forms of primitive art side by side with the classic "human" figures of Greece or the Renaissance, it should be obvious that the attitude toward man that we call classical humanism - which is the intellectual expression of the spirit that informs the classical canon of Western art - has also gone by the boards.
William Barrett
When you discipline a child, you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood.
Gift Gugu Mona
I am scared, numbed from the marital wars - that deadly, deadening combat which is the opposite, the antithesis of the sharp painful struggles of lovers. Lovers fight with knives and whips, husbands and wives poisoned marshmallows, sleeping pills, and wet blankets.
Susan Sontag
Why play, lounge or labour in a social wasteland? It's toxicity is contagious, and no respecter of persons. Fall back!
T.F. Hodge
What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the "social character" suited to twentieth century Capitalism? It needs men who co-operate smoothly in large groups; who want to consume more and more, and whose tasks are standardized and can easily be influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority, or principle, or conscience - yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected, to fit into the social machine without friction.
Erich Fromm
We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You call me the unhuman," it might say to him, "and so I really am—for you; but I am so only because you bring me into opposition to the human, and I could despise myself only so long as I let myself be hypnotized into this opposition. I was contemptible because I sought my 'better self' outside me; I was the unhuman because I dreamed of the 'human'; I resembled the pious who hunger for their 'true self' and always remain 'poor sinners'; I thought of myself only in comparison to another; enough, I was not all in all, was not—unique.[102] But now I cease to appear to myself as the unhuman, cease to measure myself and let myself be measured by man, cease to recognize anything above me: consequently—adieu, humane critic! I only have been the unhuman, am it now no longer, but am the unique, yes, to your loathing, the egoistic; yet not the egoistic as it lets itself be measured by the human, humane, and unselfish, but the egoistic as the—unique.
Max Stirner
We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
Nelson Goodman
To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.
Hélène Cixous
A gloomy face drives friends away
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.
Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
Knowledge will give you strength,but wisdom will give you power.Talent will give you respect,but genius will give you honor.Pleasure will give you happiness,but joy will give you contentment.Strength will give you fortitude,but love will give you dominion.Courage will give you victory,but faith will give you greatness.Virtue will give you the world,but God will give you universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!
Theodore Haecker
The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.
Bruce Lee
When two souls are united as one the universe itself is powerless to separate them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
[The] self overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself--mercy...
Friedrich Nietzsche
A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative.
Eric Hoffer
When they judge you, yawn.When they misunderstand you, smile.When they underestimate you, laugh.When they condemn you, ignore.When they envy you, rejoice.When they oppose you, prevail.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
Alain de Botton
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
G.K. Chesterton
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Michel de Montaigne
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.
Criss Jami
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
Marcus Aurelius
Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
There's so much one doesn't know; it wasn't my business to know. I mean, when a child asks you how a helicopter works or who made the world–well, what are you to answer if you're a Beta and have always worked in the Fertilizing Room? What are you to answer?
Aldous Huxley