Quotes by Philosophers - Page 60

Understanding is important for studying,knowledge is important for teaching,and wisdom is important for living.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A practice of giving [it] your best, means you don't just have to hope for it.

T.F. Hodge

Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling that you have no culture, because you've been torn between cultures, between incompatible symbols. How can you exist if you don't know where you are? So you burn cars, ecause when you have no culture, you're no longer a civilised animal, you're a wild beast. And a wild beast burns and kills and pillages.

Muriel Barbery

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

Vauvenargues

When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.

T.F. Hodge

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets – which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.

Peter Singer

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

Dallas Willard

Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.

Albert Camus

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

Bruce Lee

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

Alain de Botton

We are constantly invited to be what we are.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature … has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe, in our present state; and it is highly possible that he has likewise cut off all communication betwixt the other planets, and betwixt the different systems.… We observe, in all of them, enough to raise our curiosity, but not to satisfy it … It does not appear to be suitable to the wisdom that shines throughout all nature, to suppose that we should see so far, and have our curiosity so much raised … only to be disappointed at the end … This, therefore, naturally leads us to consider our present state as only the dawn or beginning of our existence, and as a state of preparation or probation for farther advancement.…

Colin Maclaurin

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Thomas Carlyle

It is in vain to try and kick the wind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

G.K. Chesterton

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

Chris Matakas

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

Bruce Lee

Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They pay lip service to it, they act by half measures and do everything to violate the laws they have themselves instituted to make sure the high class is always high. It never changes, it always goes in a circle, when the oppressed fight and get to the top, and they become the new elite and forget the promises.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Albert Camus

How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it is welcomed and sinks to the depths of the heart, and it is pleasing precisely wherein it does harm.

Seneca

Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.

Jean Vanier

The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied. The remedy is a lot of science, well applied.

Aldous Huxley

Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes isweeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.

Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi

It is in the stormiest skies that eagles find their true calling.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Alain Badiou

If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall.

Matshona Dhliwayo

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Aldous Huxley

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

Voltaire

Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.

Paul Brunton

The logic of pessimism moves through three refusals: a no-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-for-us, or Schopenhauer’s tears); a yes-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-in-itself, or Nietzsche’s laughter); and a no-saying to the for-us and the in-itself (a double refusal, or Cioran’s sleep).Crying, laughing, sleeping—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?

Eugene Thacker

Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance the gap will never be filled.

Albert Camus

We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

Fear could never make a virtue.

Voltaire

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

Alan W. Watts

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

John Stuart Mill

As you become aware of life, you will begin to see the root cause to all your actions and reactions. Then you will realize that you are not angry with the child because he made a mistake, but because you get pleasure out of being angry. The mistake was only a excuse.

Osho

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Heraclitus

How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.

Ilchi Lee

Go back to Socrates: "Know thyself." For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints. Which are you?

Peter Kreeft

If someone is speaking to you and elevating themselves at the expense of another, consider the source a non-factor; that's keepin' it 'sucka-free'.

T.F. Hodge

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. . . . The force of character is cumulative.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is fossil poetry

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One day I asked God to move the mountain ahead of me, but he said no because he wanted me to experience the joy of being on a mountain top.

Gift Gugu Mona

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

Eric Hoffer

It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with modern man is not so much that he situates himself in the future of a human lifetime, since he fears death far too much to do that, but rather than he does not situate himself in any of these three scales of time. Instead, he is forever stuck somewhere in-between, this evening, tomorrow morning, next week, next Christmas, in five years’ time. As a result, he has neither the joy of the present moment, nor the satisfied accomplishments of a human lifetime, nor the perspective and immortality of the eternal.

Neel Burton

Man would rather be loved for what he has, than be hated for what he lacks.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.

Criss Jami

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Seneca

I do not think it possible to convey the moral energy that went into this division between abstraction and realism, from both sides, in those years. It had an almost theological intensity, and in another stage of civilization there would certainly have been burnings at stake.

Arthur C. Danto

The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.

Bertrand Russell

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.

Aristotle

There are friendships that are greater than family bonds, but they are very rare

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't kill the game with your 'funk', elevate it with your humility.

T.F. Hodge

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