Quotes by Philosophers - Page 57

Seeds are proof that God sometimes packages miracles in small things.

Matshona Dhliwayo

In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening only with his legs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book – I call that viciousness!

Friedrich Nietzsche

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?

Erich Fromm

The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)

Jean-Yves Leloup

Ask not that events should happen as you will but let your will be that events should happen as they do and you shall have peace.

Epictetus

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

But why," he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, "Because at school they are made to hate it.

Olaf Stapledon

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Criss Jami

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Make your mark now.Make your mark today.Make your mark forever.

Matshona Dhliwayo

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

Aristotle

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Horace

The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Alfred North Whitehead

The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows" but does not always understand and in particular does not always feel.

Antonio Gramsci

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Muriel Barbery

Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Stupidity is doomed,therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.

Heraclitus

The sun is new each day.

Heraclitus

There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, we must face the cultural contradiction of capitalism: the progress of capitalism, which necessitates a consumer culture, undermines the values which render capitalism possible

Slavoj Žižek

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

René Descartes

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist.

Ernest Gellner

When a flower rises from the earth, it is overcoming its greatest opponent: fear.

Matshona Dhliwayo

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

Alasdair MacIntyre

I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.

David Pearce

Chaos is another name for opportunity

I-Ching

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both.

Neel Burton

Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Looking up at the stars only proves you admire them, but shining your light proves you are like them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Karl Marx

Although it might seem as though anonymity, invisibility, and other such distancing factors grant us the freedom to engage in more authentic forms of self-expression than we're usually permitted, [John] Suler warns against the temptation to regard disinhibition as "revealing of an underlying 'rue self." He suggests instead that the inhibited self and disinhibited self are simply different *sides* of the *same* person. So Suler challenges the intuitive notion that whatever inhibits us thereby diminishes the authenticity of our self-expression.

Mimi Marinucci

At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder.

G.K. Chesterton

I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,—not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me;—not hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less,—not suppose a case, but take the case that is

Henry David Thoreau

The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

Søren Kierkegaard

Never declare Fate your enemy; she does not take lightly declarations of war. Declare your friendship to her instead, and smile in hope of better days.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Voltaire

Life is very simple. Just sometimes put your head away, sometimes behead yourself, sometimes look with no clouds in the eyes - just look. Sometimes sit by the side of a tree - just feel. By the side of a waterfall - listen. Lie down on the beach and listen to the roar of the ocean, feel the sand, the coolness of it, or look at the stars, and let that silence penetrate you. Or look at the dark night and let that velvety darkness surround you, envelop you, dissolve you. This is the way of the simple heart.

Osho

To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.

Criss Jami

I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness.

Seneca

The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures.

Peter Kreeft

Life is a constant build up and release of tension. If we go too far in either direction bad things happen.

Chris Matakas

God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.

Empedocles

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine

First organizing it on paper isn't just academic, it's an applied prerequisite for manifestation.

T.F. Hodge

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.

Albert Camus

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

John Stuart Mill

To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To put it differently, as long as mind and heart are caught up in want, in desire, there must be emptiness.You want things, ideas, persons, only when you are conscious of your own emptiness, and that wanting creates a choice.When there is craving there must be choice, and choice precipitates you into the conflict of experiences.You have the capacity to choose, and thereby you limit yourself by your choice. Only when mind is free from choice is there liberation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

Sam Harris

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