Quotes by Philosophers - Page 77

Gift Gugu Mona

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

Plato

Beryl: Beryl is a warm gemstone which develops, between the third hour and midday, from the foam of water when the sun burns it severely. Its power is thus more from air and water than from fire, but nevertheless it has some of the properties of fire. And if a man has drunk or eaten poison, then he should place a little beryl in spring water and drink it at once. Continue for five days drinking it once a day while fasting, and the poison will foam up through vomiting, or it will pass out of him through the rear.

Hildegard of Bingen

Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master said, "You love the sheep; I love the ceremony.

Confucius

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hope, war that you value peace, and hate that you value love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.

Marcus Aurelius

In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. His economic bondage is both brought about and concealed by the periodic sale of himself, by his change of masters, and by the oscillation in the market price of labor power. Capitalist production, therefore, under its aspect of a continuous connected process, of a process of reproduction, produces not only commodities, not only surplus value, but it also produces and reproduces the capitalist relation; on the one side the capitalist, on the other the wage-laborer.

Karl Marx

It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity.

Matshona Dhliwayo

...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the majority of them would no longer exist. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.

Umberto Eco

One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

Aldous Huxley

Pride ruined the angels.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction.

Ivan Illich

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

Aldous Huxley

Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

Henry David Thoreau

What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything...stop pipe dreaming.

T.F. Hodge

Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?

Ayn Rand

In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system. Conversely, in arguing for collectivism, he always assumes that there will be as many jobs as there are workers. The government will make the jobs.

Isabel Paterson

Each time a star twinkles, God is winking at the universe.

Matshona Dhiliwayo

Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[The materialist] thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.

G.K. Chesterton

The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is O ye gods give me whatever is fitting unto me!

Appollonius of Tyana

The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.

Mircea Eliade

If you are unmotivated to succeed, no one can help you.If you are determined to succeed, no one can stop you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know.

Aldous Huxley

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

Will Durant

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.

Stefan Molyneux

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

Bertrand Russell

My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.

Chris Matakas

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset

Criss Jami

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.

Susan Sontag

The best of what we are lies in what we hope to be

A.C. Grayling

But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it multiplies like reason itself and assumes all the aspects of the syllogism. Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

Albert Camus

If you place two flowers in the same vase, they will not argue over who is more beautiful.

Matshona Dhliwayo

on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.

Voltaire

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.

Emil M. Cioran

To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Ayn Rand

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.

Owen Barfield

Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.

Seneca

A woman’s beauty is worth little to you, a woman’s intelligence is worth much to you, a woman’s virtue is worth more to you, a woman’s love is worth the most to you, and a woman’s loyalty is worth everything to you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

Criss Jami

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.

Ivan Illich

We always live in the tommorow,which never comes and which cannot come; it is impossible. That which comes always is today, and we go on sacrificing today for tommorow,which is nowhere. The mind goes on thinking of the past,which you have destroyed,which you have sacrificed for something that has not come. And then it goes on postponing for further tommorows.

Osho

The Qur’ān definitely seems optimistic about the future, while rather grim about the past It is absolutely imperative for successor civilizations and their bearer communities to study well and learn from the fate of earlier ones that have perished; or they will assuredly meet with the same fate, for "God's law does not change" for any people. This is perhaps one of the most insistent ideas in the Qur’ān, which constantly exhorts people to "travel on the earth and see the end of those before them

Fazlur Rahman

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.

Henry David Thoreau

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Plato

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

Zhuangzi

Reason deserves to be called a prophet for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present does it not tell us what the future will be?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Common aim is stronger than blood.

G.I. Gurdjieff

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.

Ayn Rand

Be like the sun; warm to everyone, even your enemies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or to speak of them with grief and pity. Spiritual pride is very apt to suspect others, but a humble Christian is most guarded about himself. He is as suspicious of nothing in the world as he is of his own heart. The proud person is apt to find fault with other believers, that they are low in grace, and to be much in observing how cold and dead they are and to be quick to note their deficiencies. But the humble Christian has so much to do at home and sees so much evil in his own heart and is so concerned about it that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts. He is apt to esteem others better than himself.

Jonathan Edwards

A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You don't choose to choose what you choose in life!

Sam Harris

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