Quotes by Philosophers - Page 41

I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.

Iris Murdoch

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

Criss Jami

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

Marcus Aurelius

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.

René Descartes

It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theater, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another.

Baruch Spinoza

Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat.My shoulder is against yours.you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals:not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables.When you really look for me, you will see me instantly —you will find me in the tiniest house of time.Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

Kabir

No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs

Bangambiki Habyarimana

If we look into the matter of how Christian theology rose in the beginning, the Christian Church was always already earlier, and thus even now for each individual the Christian Church is earlier than theology.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Romance begins upstairs, then culminates downstairs.

T.F. Hodge

Average leaders take you to the mountain.Superior leaders take you up the mountain.Excellent leaders take you to mountaintop.Transcendent leaders take you to the stars.

Matshona Dhliwayo

He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

Ayn Rand

One who conquers the sea today is ready to conquer the ocean tomorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The prettiest flower still had to struggle to surface.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy.

Ayn Rand

A wise man is a student though he is a teacher.

Matshona Dhliwayo

In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legata de el si se avanta in lume, spre a muri undeva fara acoperis si fara lacrimi; adolescentii se gandesc la sinucideri in zile infinite de primavara, iar servitoarele fara amanti se lamenteaza duminicile, de parca inima lor e un cimitir in care mortii nu pot dormi.

Emil M. Cioran

the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease

William James

Tapascharya, spiritual practice means: accepting the truth that you are alone; that there is no way one can have a friend, a companion. No matter how much you long for it, regardless of how much you close your eyes and dream of them – you will still remain alone. For lives you built a home, you built a family, and then you lost it – and all through that you have always remained alone. Not even slightly has your aloneness been ever affected. So one who has known, one who has accepted that he is alone, for him there is an indication in this sutra: CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE BEING. Only being is yours, nothing else.

Osho

Don't despise people because of their defects or because of their lack of talents and gifts. Imagine if people did it for you, how many friends would you be left with?

Bangambiki Habyarimana

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Baltasar Gracián

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

Cicero

It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Instinct is untaught ability.

Alexander Bain

And when there are no more classes, when society is socially democratized and unified, then there will be revealed in all its metaphysical depths the never-ending tragedy of the conflict between personality and society.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

F.H. Bradley

No matter how much and how often - 'things' will never compensate for loss or absence...no matter how guilty a parent feels.

T.F. Hodge

P69- word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone

Paulo Freire

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

Thiruvalluvar

If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of man serve its own interests.

Baron D. Holbach

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

Judith Butler

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

Jostein Gaarder

But a person, I would say, is an individual living really with the world. And 'with' the world, I don't mean in the world- just in real contact, in real reciprocity with the world in all the points in which the world can meet man.

Martin Buber

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Augustine of Hippo

I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my secret heart I too felt a void where my childhood faith had been. But probably this feeling belongs only to individuals in transition. The grandchildren of these pessimists will frolic in the freedom of their lives, and have more happiness than poor Christians darkened with fear of Hell.

Voltaire

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

G.K. Chesterton

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To my mind, the chief conclusion to be drawn from Derrida’s analysis is that the human-animal distinction is, strictly speaking, nonsensical. How could a simple (or even a highly refined) binary distinction approach doing justice to the complex ethical and ontological matters at stake here?

Matthew Calarco

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

G.K. Chesterton

When you look at a rose try to focus on its beauty, not its thorns.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You'll never cross an emotional bridge, if you keep rushing back to the other side.

T.F. Hodge

I’m not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it’s not really pain.

Ayn Rand

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

Stanisław Lem

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

Rebecca Goldstein

To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila

Robert M. Pirsig

Blow by blow a giant is knocked down.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment

Augustine of Hippo

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

Ayn Rand

Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Power hungry=life loving

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Anger is triggered by insult, then, and so is connected to worth (aretê) and to honour (timê). A person is insulted when the treatment he receives is worse than the treatment his worth entitles him to receive. He is honoured when he is given treatment proportional to his worth, and his worth is above or well-above average. When we speak of honour, therefore, we are in a way speaking of worth, since honour measures worth. Honour and insult are thus close to being polar opposites, and an insult is a harm to worth or honour.

C. D. C. Reeve

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

John of Salisbury

We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to whatever we cannot part with that is less than God, our true good. And that includes ourselves--especially ourselves and our own will. So we must renounce this too, this especially. God's world is not the problem; our attitude is. God does not want us to renounce the unspeakably beautiful world he gave us as creation, as gift, as it really is. He wants us to renounce it as creator, as our god, as it really is not. This wonderful world is our God-given house to live in and to live the love of God in. But God's bride must learn not to love her house as if it were her husband.

Peter Kreeft

In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at best only mediocre.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Excellence annoys your haters, success infuriates them, and genius kills them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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