Quotes by Philosophers - Page 48

False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet known

Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.

G.I. Gurdjieff

All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing

Edmund Burke

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

Hans Jonas

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

Will Durant

Life hands us storms so we can paint rainbows.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for one which is new, which one has not yet mastered. Undoubtedly, if the infant could think at the moment of the severance of the umbilical cord, he would experience the fear of dying. A loving fate protects us from this first panic. But at any new step, at any new stage of our birth, we are afraid again. We are never free from two conflicting tendencies: one to emerge from the womb, from the animal form of existence into a more human existence, from bondage to freedom; another, to return to the womb, to nature, to certainty and security.

Erich Fromm

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict.

Immanuel Kant

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

Criss Jami

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.

Jonathan Sacks

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

René Descartes

A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only Diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Downpulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb.

Thomas Carlyle

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.

Baruch Spinoza

Sin acts as if God's original plan was for us to bootstrap ourselves into holiness by way of the law and then, when this didn't quite pan out, God offered his grace--but only the bare minimum--to make good the difference. This is exactly backwards. God's boundless grace comes first and sin is what follows.

Adam S. Miller

Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

Friedrich Engels

The 'magic' is the known and unknown quiet, spiritual, invisible thread which links and reveals harmonic elements to a universe of high vibrational sensory. And our beloved Bro. Maurice David knew it's undeniable creative power, from within.

T.F. Hodge

Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death

Sorin Cerin

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

Henry David Thoreau

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.

Matshona Dhliwayo

But walking causes absorption. Walking interminably, taking in through your pores the height of the mountains when you are confronting them at length, breathing in the shape of the hills for hours at a time during a slow descent. The body becomes steeped in the earth it treads. And thus, gradually, it stops being in the landscape: it becomes the landscape. That doesn’t have to mean dissolution, as if the walker were fading away to become a mere inflection, a footnote. It’s more a flashing moment: sudden flame, time catching fire. And here, the feeling of eternity is all at once that vibration between presences. Eternity, here, in a spark.

Frédéric Gros

But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old.

Jostein Gaarder

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Simone de Beauvoir

And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is news to me, you may say. It is not news at all. experts will bear me out when I say that it is the oldest thing in the world. Suffice it to quote the answer which Anatole France gave to a philistine who admired his library and then finished with the standard question, “And you have read all these books, Monsieur France?” “Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sevres china every day?

Walter Benjamin

Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

John Dewey

Wisdom is simple but profound.Folly, even when complex, is stupid.

Matshona Dhliwayo

your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.

Dante Alighieri

...the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made me who I am now... To sit once more on the warm moss and hold the cap - it's the absurd wish to go back behind myself in time and take myself - the only marked by events - along on this journey.

Pascal Mercier

The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.

Criss Jami

If you fall for someone, make sure they’re there to catch you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A final victory is a succession of small victories

Bangambiki Habyarimana

For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good.

G.K. Chesterton

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

Sir Francis Bacon

God created through love and for love. God did not create anything except love itself, and the means to love. He created love in all its forms. He created beings capable of love from all possible distances. Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this agony beyond all others, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

Simone Weil

The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Pierre Abélard

Great deeds begin in the mind,extraordinary deeds begin in the heart,and remarkable deeds begin in the soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them.

Aristotle

You can never escape God's Grace because as you run from it, you run to it.

Gift Gugu Mona

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it sho

Blaise Pascal

In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.

Voltaire

There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end of you for most people there can’t afford medical care.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.

T.F. Hodge

Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear.

Michel Foucault

For the inexperienced, however, it is very difficult to distinguish passionate love from mere sex hunger; especially is this the case with well-brought-up girls, who have been taught that they could not possibly like to kiss a man unless they loved him.

Bertrand Russell

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Criss Jami

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

G.K. Chesterton

Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.

Seneca

In periods when shallow speculation is rife, one might think that metaphysics would shine forth, at least, by the brilliance of its modest reserve. But the very age that is unaware of the majesty of metaphysics, likewise overlooks its poverty. Its majesty? It is wisdom. Its poverty? It is human science.

Jacques Maritain

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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