Quotes by Philosophers - Page 68

Absolute values are the things that are important whether you like them or not. Relative values depend on social contexts and personal preferences and conditions of life. Our current market system pursues relative transient values at the cost of absolute lasting values.

Ilchi Lee

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.

Erich Fromm

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Claude Adrien Helvétius

Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, and in all probability long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts, which every nation gives of its origin.

David Hume

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

Aldous Huxley

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

John Ruskin

Encourage many,enlighten many,and you will empower many.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

Neel Burton

Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...

Dante Alighieri

If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else’s.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

Criss Jami

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Alan W. Watts

Many people hide inside of their “not-knowing” and, afraid of taking the risk, settle for mediocrity in their life. They imitate the same safe, easy life that other people walk. They mistake that for happiness and, inside of it, look for security. However, the moment that the defensive shields we’ve built up come down, all truths reveal themselves and speak to us. When we hear our inner voice and follow it, we can walk our own path.

Ilchi Lee

It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.

Alan W. Watts

As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others.

Chris Matakas

The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up.

Paul Evdokimov

for in the absence of a magistrate (dandadharabhave), the strong will swallow the weak; but under his protection, the weak resist the strong.

Kautilya

When the image is new, the world is new.

Gaston Bachelard

If i cherish you because I hold you dear, because in you my heart finds nourishment, my need satisfaction, then it is not done for the sake of a higher essence whose hallowed body you are, not on account of my beholding in you a ghost, an appearing spirit, but from egoistic pleasure; you yourself with *your* essence are valuable to me.

Max Stirner

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

Simone Weil

Don't restrain yourself to mundaneness. You're subject to consciousness that makes you more than animalistic.

T.F. Hodge

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Ivan Illich

We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.

George Steiner

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

Criss Jami

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Erich Fromm

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

Plato

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

Charles Eisenstein

Acquaintances are numerous. Friends are few. Enemies many.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your friends love you for who you are. Your family loves you for what you are.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.

Criss Jami

Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The ancient teaching of Tao tells us that knowing what you really are is wisdom, and living it is virtue.

Ilchi Lee

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

Olaf Stapledon

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.

Marshall McLuhan

What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination - it is also its business to encourage politics to remake itself by remaking its images of the good life.

Richard Kearney

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Jean de La Bruyère

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Voltaire

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or inspired by the religious hypothesis is in no way different from that dictated by the naturalistic hypothesis, then religious faith is a pure superfluity, better pruned away, and controversy about its legitimacy is a piece of idle trifling, unworthy of serious minds. I myself believe, of course, that the religious hypothesis gives to the world an expression which specifically determines our reactions, and makes them in a large part unlike what they might be on a purely naturalistic scheme of belief.

William James

The consequence model, the logical one, the amoral one, the one which refuses any divine intervention, is a problem really for just the (hypothetical) logician. You see, towards God I would rather be grateful for Heaven (which I do not deserve) than angry about Hell (which I do deserve). By this the logician within must choose either atheism or theism, but he cannot possibly through good reason choose anti-theism. For his friend in this case is not at all mathematical law: the law in that 'this equation, this path will consequently direct me to a specific point'; over the alternative and the one he denies, 'God will send me wherever and do it strictly for his own sovereign amusement.' The consequence model, the former, seeks the absence of God, which orders he cannot save one from one's inevitable consequences; hence the angry anti-theist within, 'the logical one', the one who wants to be master of his own fate, can only contradict himself - I do not think it wise to be angry at math.

Criss Jami

When you fall for someone not even reason can help you up.

Matshona Dhliwayo

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

Karl R. Popper

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.

Albert Camus

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Eric Hoffer

Love affords you these three things: smiles, hugs, and kisses. Joy affords you these three things: pleasure, laughter, and good memories.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Slay Goliath and the army behind him scatters.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Power changes its appearance but not its reality.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Marcus Aurelius

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.

Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

Aldous Huxley

He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.

Seneca

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