Quotes by Philosophers - Page 338

You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Nature has given to men one tongue but two ears that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
Our concern for victims is the secular mask of Christian love.
René Girard
I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.
Stefan Molyneux
All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.
Jeremy Bentham
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
Marcus Aurelius
In the event of a total loss of direction in life, be sure to sort our your own shit before you start telling people what to do.
A.C. Ping
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
Immanuel Kant
When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.
Simone Weil
Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?
David Pearce
Rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion among the sensuous components of experience, and is not something added to such sense experience. Subrational beings have no means of achieving such a ratio or proportion in their sense lives but are wired for fixed wave lengths, as it were, having infallibility in their own area of experience. Consciousness, complex and subtle, can be impaired or ended by a mere stepping-up or dimming-down of any one sense intensity, which is the procedure in hypnosis. And the intensification of one sense by a new medium can hypnotize an entire community.
Marshall McLuhan
Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.
T.F. Hodge
The Search for reason ends at the known; on the immense expanse beyond it only the sense of the ineffable can glide. It alone knows the route to that which is remote from experience and understanding. Neither of them is amphibious: reason cannot go beyond the shore, and the sense of the ineffable is out of place where we measure, where we weigh. We do not leave the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions. We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore. Citizens of two realms, we all must sustain a dual allegiance: we sense the ineffable in one realm, we name and exploit reality in another. Between the two we set up a system of references, but we can never fill the gap. They are as far and as close to each other as time and calendar, as violin and melody, as life and what lies beyond the last breath.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.
Ayn Rand
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.
Patrick Nowell-Smith
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
Søren Kierkegaard
Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysiqueWhen he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire
My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.
Simone de Beauvoir
Strong thoughts are accompanied by great emotions
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You never wanted me to be real. You never wanted anyone to be. But you didn’t want me to show it. You wanted an act to help your act...
Ayn Rand
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God will let you into the battlefield so you can understand the meaning of victory.
Gift Gugu Mona
Rushing into action, you fail.Trying to grasp things, you lose them.Forcing a project to completion,you ruin what was almost ripe.Therefore the Master takes actionby letting things take their course.He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning.He has nothing,thus has nothing to lose.What he desires is non-desire;what he learns is to unlearn.He simply reminds peopleof who they have always been.He cares about nothing but the Tao.Thus he can care for all things.
Lao Tzu
The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
God's judgment is not like man's judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love.
Criss Jami
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.
Criss Jami
To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid.
John Cage
The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body
Baruch Spinoza
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Stanisław Lem
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.
Gaston Bachelard
The distance between two minds is understanding.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We know not through our intellect but through our Experience
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.
Augustine of Hippo
One man's thorn is another man's rose.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
Imitation cannot go above its model.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Jump Time’s developing hybrid world, capacities once nurtured in separate societies are available to the entire family of humankind. This is a stupendous happening, as important as the discovery of new continents during the time of the great sea journeys. For the first time in human history the genius of the human race is available for all to harvest. These rediscovered capacities may be evolutionary accelerators, now being gathered from many places, times, and cultures to awaken our species to who we are and what we yet may be and do. Often, however, it is not comfortable. We can for a time find ourselves strangers in a very strange land, wishing we could return to the comforts of a more insular and familiar worldview. Yet when we get beyond the shutterings of our local cultural trance, we gain the courage to nurture the emerging forms of the possible human and the possible society.
Jean Houston
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Hannah Arendt
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke
Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise.
Thiruvalluvar
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else to do something kind and good.
Theodore Haecker
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus
A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets – which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.
Peter Singer
It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.
Criss Jami
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Plato
No three words have greater force than “I want you,” greater strength than “I need you,” greater might than “I miss you,” and greater power than “I love you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A short axe can still cut down tall trees.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Courage treats the weak better than fear treats the strong.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Character is greatness inside out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant
Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Fear can only be mastered outside of your comfort zone.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
Albert Camus
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
Simone Weil
Happiness does not come from having much, but from being content, even when you have little.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: A hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - that engenders the territory.
Baudrillard Jean