Quotes by Philosophers - Page 7

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

Jean de La Bruyère

If you have the power to put a smile on one person’s face, you have the power to change the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruce Lee

Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea

Bangambiki Habyarimana

An individual dies ... when instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being he cowers within and takes refuge there.

E. M. Cioran

Love is always based on self-interest

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

Criss Jami

If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the river enters into the ocean,so my heart touches Thee.

Kabir

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over

Bangambiki Habyarimana

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. It’s like the root of a tree. All a tree’s fruit and flowers, branches and leaves depend on its root. If you nourish its root, a tree multiplies. If you cut its root, it dies. Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort.

Bodhidharma

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous. You cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot inquire into reality if you are not courageous. Hence courage comes first and everything else follows.

Osho

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

Criss Jami

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

Albert Camus

While sleeping, we’re free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

Ilchi Lee

....harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare or in any enforced business, and who, when he has failed […] confronts fortune with steadfast endurance and repels her strokes

Plato

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

John Cage

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it

Karl Marx

The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuitNo great talent without an element of madness

Seneca

He also said - pointedly - that space travel nowadays was an escape from the problems of Earth. That is, one took off for the stars in the hope that the worst would happen and be done with in one's absence. And indeed I couldn't deny that more than once I had peered anxiously out the porthole - especially when returning from a long voyage - to see whether or not our planet resembled a burnt potato.

Stanisław Lem

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world surrenders to an enlightened mind.The stars surrender to a joyful heart. The universe surrenders to a loving soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Novalis

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

Sam Harris

It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong

Bangambiki Habyarimana

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

Cornel West

The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

And all are asleep,so all are foolish. Don't feel offended. Thefacts have to be stated as they are.You function in sleep; that's why you go on stumbling,you go on doing things you don't want to do, you go on doing things you have decided not to do. You go on doing things you know are not right to do, and you don't do things that you know are right. How is this possible? Why can't you walk straight? Why do you go on getting trapped into bypaths? Why do you go on going astray? This is what is happening. Watch your life--everything that you go on demanding is so confused and so confusiing. You are not alert. You can't see, you can't heart-- certainly you have ears so you can hear, but there is nobody inside to understand it. Certainly you have eyes so you can see,but there is nobody present inside. So your eyes go on seeing and your ears go on listening, but nothing is understood. And on each step you stumble, on each step you commit something wrong. And still you go on believing that you are aware.

Osho

The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon or perchance a palace or temple on earth and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Henry David Thoreau

The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.

Seneca

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

Voltaire

P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty

Ivan Illich

Life becomes unbearable when, instead of living it, you stop to think about it.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution by a 'footnote' to colonial history about the 'revolt' of the American colonies. Word choice and the organization of material gave the game away.

Arthur F. Holmes

The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.

Aldous Huxley

Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

In spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

Erich Fromm

Money can't buy love, except on Valentine’s Day.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...

Adam Smith

Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Socrates

As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of that kind; they are all transforming. There is a like divine power and energy in them as in the first discoveries; they still reach the bottom of the heart, and affect and alter the very nature of the soul, in proportion to the degree in which they are given. And a transformation of nature is continued and carried on by them to the end of life, until it is brought to perfection in glory.

Jonathan Edwards

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.

Emil M. Cioran

Anger has great strength,but no brains.Greed has many hands,but no heart.Fear has many titles,but no honor.Hate has many forms,but no soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you.

Chris Matakas

Patience is the art of hoping.

Vauvenargues

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

Sam Harris

If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God.

Peter Kreeft

That Muhammad could predict certain events does not prove that he was a prophet: he may have been able to guess successfully, but this does not mean that he had real knowledge of the future. And certainly the fact that he was able to recount events from the past does not prove that he was a prophet, because he could have read about those events in the Bible and, if he was illiterate, he could still have had the Bible read to him.

Muhammad al Warraq

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

Karl Marx

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