Quotes by Philosophers - Page 70

To know what should be going on in a household: spend a few minutes with the wife, or, the husband. To know what’s really going on: spend a few minutes with their kid(s).

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

Ayn Rand

Souls from the same star find it impossible to resist dancing to the tune of inevitability.

T.F. Hodge

The greater the pressure, the greater the treasure.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Walter Benjamin

Love gives you eyes.

Peter Kreeft

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

Jean de La Bruyère

It is better to learn two important lessons in life than a thousand when you are about to die.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.

James V. Schall

Writing a book is burning your brain to enlighten another man's mind

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Rise up to wise up.

T.F. Hodge

Come follow me and leave the world to its babblings.

Dante Alighieri

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

Muriel Barbery

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, 'We're sorry we did it,' that would be nice. But if that just assuages guilt, it's just another crime. To become minimally civilized, we would have to say, 'We carried out and benefited from vicious crimes. A large part of the wealth of France comes from the crimes we committed against Haiti, and the United States gained as well. Therefore we are going to pay reparations to the Haitian people.' Then you will see the beginnings of civilization.

Noam Chomsky

A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.

Voltaire

He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment.

Iris Murdoch

The moon cannot outshine the sun.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The nineteenth century and our own have been rather the age of multiplication: a dispersion of sexualities, a strengthening of their disparate forms, a multiple implantation of "perversions." Our epoch has initiated sexual heterogeneities.

Michel Foucault

What’s it gonna be like, dying? To go to sleep and never, never, never wake up.Well, a lot of things it’s not gonna be like. It’s not going to be like being buried alive. It’s not going to be like being in the darkness forever.I tell you what — it’s going to be as if you never had existed at all. Not only you, but everything else as well. That just there was never anything, there’s no one to regret it — and there’s no problem. Well, think about that for a while — it’s kind of a weird feeling when you really think about it, when you really imagine.[The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are ]

Alan W. Watts

It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them?

Henry David Thoreau

Armed with the new right to sell their products back to host societies, they can bleed both producing and buying populations at the same time. That is why under new international "free trade" agreements private corporations and businesses have increasingly demanded that governments deregulate and lower taxes so that they are not obliged to pay the cost of sustaining the life of host-societies or their environments.

John McMurtry

Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Elevate your mind and you elevate your world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Georg Simmel

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Love is a spirit, and therefore cannot die a natural death.

Matshona Dhliwayo

All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan W. Watts

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential.

Osho

But we all suffer. For we all prize and love; and in this present existence of ours, prizing and loving yield suffering. Love in our world is suffering love. Some do not suffer much, though, for they do not love much. Suffering is for the loving. This, said Jesus, is the command of the Holy One: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." In commanding us to love, God invites us to suffer.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Francis Bacon

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Albert Camus

I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," where he pointed out that "Force is always on the side of the governed." Whether it's a military society, a partially free society, or what we - not he - would call a totalitarian state, it's the governed who have the power. And the rulers have to find ways to keep them from using their power. Force has its limits, so they have to use persuasion. They have to somehow find ways to convince people to accept authority. If they aren't able to do that, the whole thing is going to collapse.

Noam Chomsky

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

Blaise Pascal

Quoting Father Seraphim:Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you will. (27)

Jean-Yves Leloup

New roads new ruts.

G.K. Chesterton

Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Aldous Huxley

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

The desert is harsh, but persevering flowers flourish.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, everything I did not possess. It was to him I owed pains and pleasures whose violence alone saved me from the deserts of boredom in which I found myself bogged down.

Simone de Beauvoir

An employer’s fart is music to his employees’ ears.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.

Criss Jami

He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and both of these elements are suspects to the one whom he has made powerful.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.

Seneca

It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurely

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Be — don't try to become

Osho

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

G.K. Chesterton

Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them

Bangambiki Habyarimana

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

Cornel West

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