Quotes by Philosophers - Page 26

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

Noam Chomsky

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

Lao Tzu

Love, no matter how small, begets kindness.Joy, no matter how small, begets cheerfulness.Wisdom, no matter how small, begets intelligence.Faith, no matter how small, begets persistence.Genius, no matter how small, begets excellence.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.

George Santayana

Tarrou had "lost the match," as he put it. But what had he, Rieux, won? No more than the experience of having known plague and remembering it, of having known friendship and remembering it, of knowing affection and being destined one day to remember it. So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. But Tarrou, perhaps, would have called that winning the match.

Albert Camus

We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is everything. So, for one who loves, everything has ceased to have meaning in itself and only means something through the interpretation love gives it. Thus if another betrothed became convinced there was some other girl he cared for, he would presumably stand there like a criminal and his fiancée be outraged. You, however, I know would see a tribute in such a confession; for me to be able to love another you know is an impossibility; it is my love for you casting its reflections over the whole of life. So when I care about someone else, it is not to convince myself that I do not love her but only you—that would be presumptuous; but since my whole soul is filled with you, life takes on another meaning for me: it becomes a myth about you."—Johannes the Seducer, from_Either/Or_

Søren Kierkegaard

Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality.

Criss Jami

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

Stanisław Lem

Working overtime is an underpaid man’s salvation.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited but was defined before it existed.

G.K. Chesterton

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly, with the same attitude I remember was present just before I found that sheared pin. It was that attitude that found it, nothing else.

Robert M. Pirsig

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

Epicurus

You worry less about misplacing a star when the whole sky is yours.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

Baruch Spinoza

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Lao Tzu

I don't care about eternity. I was not their when it began, I will not be there when it ends

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Although there are certain needs, such as hunger, thirst, sex, which are common to man, those drives which make for the differences in men's characters, like love and hatred, the lust for power and the yearning for submission, the enjoyment of sensuous pleasure and the fear of it, are all products of the social process. The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed and biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. In other words, society has not only a suppressing function - although it has that too - but it has also a creative function.

Erich Fromm

It is not the Church name that matters, but a Christ like character from every Christian that makes a difference.

Gift Gugu Mona

... murder wol out

Geoffrey Chaucer

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

Ilchi Lee

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.

F.H. Bradley

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Emmanuel Levinas

To forsake wisdom is to seek folly,to seek folly is to seek evil,to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil,and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

Aristotle

What does one do with experience? Do we react negatively, or do we (pro)create from the space of positivity?

T.F. Hodge

A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler.

Matshona Dhliwayo

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

Immanuel Kant

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

Nikos Kazantzakis

that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

Henry David Thoreau

To be successful you must be willing to leave your comfort zone. Even then success is not guaranteed

Bangambiki Habyarimana

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

Paul Valéry

When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through it, bought it and "read it with so much pleasure that he was forced at times to interrupt his reading, so loud were the beatings of his heart due to the extreme pleasure he had in doing so". Those who never put down a book of erudition, science or philosophy, to catch their breath, so to speak, and recover from the strong emotion they experience, certainly ignore of of the most exquisite pleasures of intellectual life.

Étienne Gilson

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Susan Sontag

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

Lewis Mumford

When you are walking on water it is fear, not sharks, that sinks you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Given the opportunity of 'Earth-School' enrollment - some are humble enough to learn and grow, stubborn enough to fail and repeat, and wise enough to graduate and never return.

T.F. Hodge

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

Paul Tillich

To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.

John Dewey

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

G.K. Chesterton

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

Criss Jami

Be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continually pounds; it stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at its feet. I hear you say, "How unlucky that this should happen to me!" Not at all! Say instead, "How lucky that I am not broken by what has happened and am not afraid of what is about to happen. The same blow might have struck anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation or complaint.

Marcus Aurelius

Philosophy can make people sick.

Aristotle

Weekends are an employee’s parole.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

We'll teach it that the humblest insect measuring out its miserable days by the pug-wuggery and skull duggery of the old Slug of Time is worth far more than this defecating bubble!

John Cowper Powys

Brilliance is the masterpiece of your mind. Excellence is the masterpiece of your heart. Genius is the masterpiece of your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

Confucius

Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. "Watson" he says, "look up in the sky and tell me what you see.""I see millions of stars, Holmes," says Watson."And what do you conclude from that, Watson?"Watson thinks for a moment. "Well," he says, "astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meterologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I see that God is all-powerful, and we are small and insignficant. Uh, what does it tell you, Holmes?""Watson, you idiot! Someone has stolen our tent!

Thomas Cathcart

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Epicurus

Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists.

Nel Noddings

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