Quotes by Philosophers - Page 71

Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.

Sir Francis Bacon

Quotation confesses inferiority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.

Simone de Beauvoir

Every time you hurt my heart, you are actually making it stronger than before.

Gift Gugu Mona

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.

Élisabeth Badinter

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Some men are born posthumously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Faith is the summit of the Torah.

Solomon ibn Gabirol

There is noroom for the love of others within the tight, crowded miser’s hole of a privateego. Be empty in order to be filled. ’He that loveth his life shall lose it; andhe that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Ayn Rand

The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'

Michel de Montaigne

To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is deep enough so that she can hold the belief on behalf of others.

Charles Eisenstein

Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities. And it must be understood that a prince, and especially a new prince, cannot observe all those things which are considered good in men, being often obliged, in order to maintain the state, to act against faith, against charity, against humanity, and against religion. And, therefore, he must have a mind disposed to adapt itself according to the wind, and as the variations of fortune dictate, and, as I said before, not deviate from what is good, if possible, but be able to do evil if constrained.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The artist has a special task and duty the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

Lewis Mumford

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

Sam Harris

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.

Criss Jami

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee

Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream.

Thomas Carlyle

To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido.

Umberto Eco

Devoting yourself to a particular art is invaluable. The art becomes our vehicle with which we drive down the road of life. We use this vehicle to learn about ourselves and this place, to conquer fears, to become more of what we already are. In my own life, I have found most valuable the transferable skills of learning from jiu jitsu to all other facets of day to day study. In devoting myself with such commitment to this art, in undertaking the task of understanding jiu jitsu to whatever degree by circumstance allows, I have unknowingly learned how to learn.

Chris Matakas

Do good.Spread love.Embrace all.Hurt none.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

Plato

Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.

Simone Weil

The beauty of being alive is that each day you are given another chance to correct what you did wrong and improve on what you can do right.

Gift Gugu Mona

To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world.

Evan Thompson

The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it.

Aldous Huxley

Be merry, because it confuses your enemies; happy, because it annoys them; cheerful, because it angers them; and joyful, because it kills them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

Blaise Pascal

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

William James

Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn’t willing to do ‘anything’ for money.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Voltaire

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Thomas Paine

[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by patient study of the eternal laws.

Henry Whitehead

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Over the last 25 years, the major popular movements that have had significant impact on the general society and have changed it, that have had a major civilizing effect – the feminist movement, the environmental movement, and so on – these are mostly developments of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Their roots might be in the activism of the ‘60s, but the movements themselves developed and extended later. The same is true of the changes in respect for other cultures, rights of oppressed people, and so on. These are quite significant changes. If you compare the United States now to what it was, say, 35 years ago, the changes are quite dramatic. These are changes in popular consciousness that are quite deeply embedded.

Noam Chomsky

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it.Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: but none is a ‘miracle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not know what it's like to be a bat, we do not know what it's like to be in coma. we can't even say that we know what it's like to be sleeping. We can say what it's like to be restored to consciousness after sleeping. If there are no dreams during our sleep then the sleeping life is an empty life. We might say of such a life that it's not like being anything. We protect that life on the assumption that come the morning its normal functions will be restored. Suppose it was the case however that such functions were only restored every two days... every eight days... twice a year but only briefly. I assume the point is clear. Actions that end life are irretrievable. If we are mistaken at that point there is no going back.

Daniel N. Robinson

The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Alfred North Whitehead

Mind is basically the beginning of madness. And if you are too much in it, it will drive you mad.Mind has no certainity about anything. If you are betweeen two polarities of the mind,in a limbo--always to do or not to do,you will go crazy. You are crazy! Before it happens,jump out and have a look from outside at the mind.Mind is basically indecisive and awareness is basically decisive.So any act of awareness is total,full without repentance.

Osho

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

John Ruskin

Where much is expected from an individual he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Elbert Hubbard

This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude essay of some infant deity, who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame performance: it is the work only of some dependent, inferior deity; and is the object of derision to his superiors: it is the production of old age and dotage in some superannuateddeity; and ever since his death, has run on at adventures, from the first impulse and active force which it received from him.

David Hume

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire

We hold further that Communism is not only desirable, but that existing societies, founded on Individualism, are inevitably impelled in the direction of Communism. The development of Individualism during the last three centuries is explained by the efforts of the individual to protect himself from the tyranny of Capital and of the State. For a time he imagined, and those who expressed his thought for him declared, that he could free himself entirely from the State and from society. "By means of money," he said, "I can buy all that I need." But the individual was on a wrong tack, and modern history has taught him to recognize that, without the help of all, he can do nothing, although his strong-boxes are full of gold.

Pyotr Kropotkin

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

Aldous Huxley

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

Blaise Pascal

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To catch any fish, give it what it eats.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring

Bangambiki Habyarimana

This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis of the wages system even the unpaid labour seems to be paid labour. With the slave, on the contrary, even that part of his labour which is paid appears to be unpaid. Of course, in order to work the slave must live, and one part of his working day goes to replace the value of his own maintenance. But since no bargain is struck between him and his master, and no acts of selling and buying are going on between the two parties, all his labour seems to be given away for nothing.

Karl Marx

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

Criss Jami

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?

Umberto Eco

Not all ‘whites’ are racists. Not all racists are ‘white.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

Pascal

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