Quotes by Philosophers - Page 32

I wouldn't think that God is quite as much concerned with whether or not one actually sins as He is with whether or not in one's heart one genuinely wants to turn from sin; and therefore, continues working passionately with Him in doing so. It is not some pleasure of God's, as some might imagine, to stand around critiquing, arms crossed, holding a whip. I suppose that when someone weeps over their sins, He extends His hands; He wants them to lift their head and embrace Him and the mercy He's willing to show. But when someone is proud of their sins, He delivers His justice swiftly and righteously. Sin does not intimidate God - although He takes it very seriously - it does no real harm to Him whatsoever, only to the sinner and to other people: and He loves people.

Criss Jami

Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will see something clearly articulated, a weak eye will see a blurred patch of colour.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his life formed part of the rituals of his power. The disciplinary methods reversed this relation, lowered the threshold of describable individuality and made of this description a means of control and a method of domination.

Michel Foucault

Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of the world, such a person forgets himself, in a divine sense forgets his own name, dares not believe in himself, finds being himself too risky, finds it much easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, along with the crowd. Now this form of despair goes practically unnoticed in the world. Precisely by losing oneself in this way, such a person gains all that is required for a flawless performance in everyday life, yes, for making a great success out of life. Here there is no dragging of the feet, no difficulty with his self and its infinitizing, he is ground smooth as a pebble, as exchangeable as a coin of the realm. Far from anyone thinking him to be in despair, he is just what a human being ought to be. Naturally, the world has generally no understanding of what is truly horrifying.

Søren Kierkegaard

Think of how you feel when you are sick, or how you felt when you were learning to ride your bike. The physical state of your body has a direct effect on how you think about the world, on the state of your mind. I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that your body has a direct effect on who you are

Gregory Bassham

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We work to become not to acquire.

Elbert Hubbard

We think our civilization near its meridian but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maths is at only one remove from magic.

Neel Burton

To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid.

John Cage

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

Thomas More

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All women live

Nussbaum

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

G.K. Chesterton

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Nicolas de Chamfort

One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.

Voltaire

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

Criss Jami

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine. He neither endeavours to impose upon you by the cunning devices of an artful impostor, nor by the arrogant airs of an assuming pedant, nor by the confident assertions of a superficial and imprudent pretender. He is not ostentatious even of the abilities which he really possesses. His conversation is simple and modest, and he is averse to all the quackish arts by which other people so frequently thrust themselves into public notice and reputation.

Adam Smith

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

Stefan Molyneux

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Allen Ginsberg

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Superiority is always detested.

Baltasar Gracián

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.

Hannah Arendt

He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to.

Albert Camus

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany. The degree of socialization may be total, as in Russia—or partial, as in England. Theoretically, the differences are superficial; practically, they are only a matter of time. The basic principle, in all cases, is the same.

Ayn Rand

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Lao Tzu

Our history, especially that of the great religions, Christianity in particular, has given us a "hidden prejudice" in favor of the "beyond" at the expense of the "here and now" and this must be changed.(quoted from The Age of Atheists" by Peter Watson, p 25)

Luc Ferry

Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.

Immanuel Kant

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.

G.K. Chesterton

My soul is like a house, small for you to enter, but I pray you to enlarge it. It is in ruins, but I ask you to remake it. It contains much that you will not be pleased to see: this I know and do not hide. But who is to rid it of these things? There is no one but you.

Augustine of Hippo

The importance of falling in love lies not in how it feels, but in what it perceives. And as always with our feelings, the key moral issue is how truthful the perception is... Falling in love is a sign that this might be someone with whom you could make a good marriage. Still, it's not enough, because the feeling is not always as perceptive as it should be... So falling in love is not the basis for a good marriage. It's not even a requirement. Marriage does not depend on falling in love; it depends on the promises you make to each other in your wedding vows and then spend a lifetime keeping. As many people have pointed out, you can't promise how you'll feel. But you can promise to cultivate a virtue, such as the virtue of love.

Phillip Cary

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

Friedrich Nietzsche

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

William H. Gass

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Albert Camus

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

Susan Sontag

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

Immanuel Kant

Fear is the absence of faith.

Paul Tillich

People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.

Criss Jami

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

Miguel de Unamuno

Dream all you can, live all you say, work all you must.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

Some changes we can control, but we find that many things are inseparably wired into the life we share in local, national, and global communities. For example, the healthy lifestyle you are determined to live and take to be a personal choice of which you have control, is heavily influenced and limited by the culture and industries of the communities you belong to.

Ilchi Lee

Every leader has a right to lead followers in the right direction and the responsibility to empower them to achieve much more.

Gift Gugu Mona

The spectacle takes us away from our routines. For at least a time, we feel part of something big, colorful, exciting. It is perhaps understandable that civilians are often more enthusiastic during wartime than soldiers who have experienced battle. The soldiers know that war is often boring and dirty as well as terrifying and colorful. Even so, after some years, an old soldier like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., could brush aside his earlier description of the pain, boredom, and death of war and declare that “its message was divine.” The stench disappears, but the spectacle remains in memory’s eye.

Nel Noddings

Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.

Ilchi Lee

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the keys of the kingdom and to the life of restful power in ministry and life that those keys open to us.

Dallas Willard

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Is the phrase 'pay' or 'play the piper'I inquire, why'Cause I admire a desire to flip the switchYeah make a way to face the music likeLife savings for a mosh pit riotListen to a mixRock the tickets, higher volumeVelocity which shakes a cockpit's pilot

Criss Jami

At the fourth, the fractal (or viral, or radiant) stage of value, there is no point of reference at all, and value radiates in all directions, occupying all interstices, without reference to anything whatsoever, by virtue of pure contiguity. At the fractal stage there is no longer any equivalence, whether natural or general. Properly speaking there is now no law of value, merely a sort of epidemic of value, a sort of general metastasis of value, a haphazard proliferation and dispersal of value. Indeed, we should really no longer speak of 'value' at all, for this kind of propagation or chain reaction makes all valuation possible.

Jean Baudrillard

No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.

Peter Slezak

It is easier to lose a thosuand disciples than to win over one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

Immanuel Kant

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