Quotes by Philosophers - Page 64

... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.

Jean-François Lyotard

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Meister Eckhart

Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.

Peter Kreeft

The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

G.K. Chesterton

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.

Blaise Pascal

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.

Peter Sloterdijk

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

Albert Camus

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation, which holds between language and the world.To all of them the logical structure is common.(Like the two youths, their two horses and their lilies in the story. They are all in a certain sense one.)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

René Descartes

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.

Albert Schweitzer

Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world.

Sam Harris

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

Dallas Willard

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Horace

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Ask your wife for forgiveness, even when you’re right.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised.

Gregory B. Sadler

The only cure for grief is action.

G. H. Lewes

My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there!

Daniel C. Dennett

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Noam Chomsky

In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.

Søren Kierkegaard

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Socrates

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.

Criss Jami

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

We need an enemy to give people hope. Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards: those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and the bastards always talk about the purity of the race. National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the primordial passion. It is love that’s abnormal.

Umberto Eco

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.

Criss Jami

The louder your “I can” the closer your “I've done it!

Matshona Dhliwayo

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire the one that inspires all his plans all his actions he would say: "I want to be praised."

E. M. Cioran

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Plato

The importance of awakening to our evolutionary origins is paramount because irrational ideas about “who we are” fuel our sense of separateness

Christopher Zzenn Loren

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

William James

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

Thiruvalluvar

If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I believe that we are henceforth incapable of returning to an order of moral life which would take the form of a simple submission to commandments or to an alien or supreme will, even if this will were represented as divine. We must accept as a positive good the critique of ethics and religion that has been undertaken by the school of suspicion. From it we have learned to understand that the commandment that gives death, not life, is a product and projection of our own weakness.

Paul Ricœur

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

Aldous Huxley

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

Eric Hoffer

The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.

Thomas Carlyle

every thought that deviates from the officially prescribed and permanently changing line is already suspect, no matter in which field of human activity it occurs. Simply because of their capacity to think, human beings are suspects by definition, and this suspicion cannot be diverted by exemplary behavior, for the human capacity to think is also a capacity to change one's mind.

Hannah Arendt

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

Susan Sontag

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Publilius Syrus

Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of ‘Life’ that makes the concept of 'Value’ possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.

Ayn Rand

When I was young, I admired old people.Now that I’m old, I admire wise people.When I was a youth, I admired strong people.Now that I’m old, I admire meek people.When I was an adult, I admired wealthy people.Now that I’m old, I admire happy people.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The great misfortune of our generation is that the direction which by the amazing progress of the natural sciences has been given to its interests is not one which assists us in comprehending the larger process of which as individuals we form merely a part or in appreciating how we constantly contribute to a common effort without either directing it or submitting to orders of others.

Friedrich A. Hayek

She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her practicality into her practice. In modern Imperial wars, the case is reversed. Our dreams, our aims are always, we insist, quite practical. It is our practice that is dreamy.

G.K. Chesterton

Living above the world, each discovering his own weight, seeing his face brighten and darken with the day, the night, each of the four inhabitants of the house was aware of a presence that was at once a judge and a justification among them. The world, here, became a personage, counted among those from whom advice is gladly taken, those in whom equilibrium has not killed love.

Albert Camus

The great compete not only against others, but against themselves.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Thomas Aquinas

When in trouble, run to God. When in pain, dwell in His presence. When you don't know what to say or do, ask God and for every moment praise God. He is always by your side!

Gift Gugu Mona

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