Quotes by Philosophers - Page 36

Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed.

Chris Matakas

Eagles fly alone, not because they are proud, but because they are not afraid of soaring above the clouds.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When a woman wants your attention, she uses her smile. When she wants your wallet, she uses her charm. When she wants your heart, she uses her touch. When she wants your soul, she uses her kiss.

Matshona Dhliwayo

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

Michel de Montaigne

If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.

Blaise Pascal

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all...

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

I don't know the beginnings and the end of all things? But apparently most people do.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

Criss Jami

For as long as space remains,For as long as sentient beings remain,Until then may I too remainTo dispel the miseries of the world.

Acharya Shantideva

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

Aristotle

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and machinery, capitalism and materialism go hand in hand so far in a most remarkably successful manner. Mysticism, which is the life of religion in whatever sense we understand it, has come to be relegated altogether in the background. Without a certain amount of mysticism there is no appreciation for the feeling of reverence, and, along with it, for the spiritual significance of humility. Science and scientific technique have done a great deal for humanity; but as far as our spiritual welfare is concerned we have not made any advances over that attained by our forefathers. In fact we are suffering at present the worst kind of unrest all over the world.

D.T. Suzuki

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Aristotle

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

Charles Fourier

Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

Aristotle

One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

Norman O. Brown

He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to the living spirit and light within him, and avenged himself on the world by enriching it with this record of his own transcendental ideal.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is common to represent a title, but inspiring to represent a purpose.

T.F. Hodge

A bird does not give up flying today because it couldn't find any worms yesterday.

Matshona Dhliwayo

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

Mikhail Bakunin

Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop.

Liezi

We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I believe we must pursue mastery for who we become along the way in its achievement. When we progress in Jiu Jitsu, that newfound experience and wisdom transcends into all areas of our lives. We use Jiu Jitsu as the vehicle for growth, but that growth radiates over all of human activity. Someone who devotes time and energy in learning this skill is learning far more than how to subdue an opponent. The student learns persistence, perseverance, pattern recognition, problem solving, and most importantly, learning how to learn. In the arena of life, these virtues are far more valuable than any guard pass.

Chris Matakas

Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.

Colin Wilson

And to every man has been assigned a good and an evil angel; one assisting him and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin.

Voltaire

It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it in scientific terms; on the other, we feel that we are the authors of our own thoughts and actions.

Sam Harris

Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the alter of monogamy

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.

Augustine of Hippo

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Criss Jami

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

John Stuart Mill

Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

How can we “find ourselves” again? How can man “know himself”? He is a thing obscure and veiled. If the hare has seven skins, man can cast from him seventy times seven skins, and not be able to say: “Here you truly are; there is skin no more.”Also this digging into oneself, this straight, violent descent into the pit of one’s being, is a troublesome and dangerous business to start. You may easily take such hurt, that no doctor can heal you. And what is the point: since everything bears witness to our essence — our friendships and enmities, our looks and greetings, our memories and forgetfulnesses, our books and our writing!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.

Will Durant

There can never be surprises in logic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The moving about that the city mutliplies and concentrates makes the city itself an immense social experience of lacking a place -- an experience that is, to be sure, broken up into countless tiny deportations (displacements and walks), compensated for by the relationships and intersections of these exoduses that intertwine and create an urban fabric, and placed under the sign of what ought to be, ultimately, the place but is only a name, the City...a universe of rented spaces haunted by a nowhere or by dreamed-of places.

Michel de Certeau

For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

Albert Camus

A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and oppressed barbarism, superstition and ignorance. Modernity is a cap superimposed upon the Middle Ages, which always remain.

Will Durant

The distance between two minds is understanding.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.

T.F. Hodge

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

Jeremy Bentham

When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been able to produce in millions of years. I really cannot believe it. Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan or the Fascists? Moreover, if you accept the ordinary laws of science, you have to suppose that human life and life in general on this planet will die out in due course: it is a stage in the decay of the solar system; at a certain stage of decay you get the sort of conditions of temperature and so forth which are suitable to protoplasm, and there is life for a short time in the life of the whole solar system. You see in the moon the sort of thing to which the earth is tending -- something dead, cold, and lifeless.

Bertrand Russell

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Robert M. Pirsig

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

Henry David Thoreau

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

Edmund Burke

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

George Santayana

Once you hear the details of victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you give up every time you don't achieve the immediate gain you want, you're just guaranteeing that the worst is going to happen... You can't expect an easy victory after one protest march.

Noam Chomsky

If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.

John Ruskin

Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Henry David Thoreau

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Peter Kreeft

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