Quotes by Philosophers - Page 78

As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the "crime" of Judaism into the fashionable "vice" of Jewishness was dangerous in the extreme. Jews had been able to escape from Judaism into conversion; from Jewishness there was no escape. A crime, moreover, is met with punishment; a vice can only be exterminated.

Hannah Arendt

Every word is a prejudice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

Karl Marx

I do not believe it possible for one to genuinely love Truth more than people (or vice versa). One might fall into the snare of loving the search more than people, or the pride of having exposed something or someone, but not the truth itself. For if you love Truth you love people; because to love people at all and without illusion, you must also love the truth about them.

Criss Jami

The shepherd's fortune is in his sheep.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

Albert Camus

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

Francis Bacon

People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really want to fear something, they should be fearing separation from God, the supposedly more comforting alternative to a literal Hell. For separation from the authorship of love, mercy, and goodness is the ultimate torture. If you think a literal Hell sounds too bad, you are very much underestimating the pain of being absolutely, wholly separated from the goodness while exposed to the reality of the holiness of God.

Criss Jami

It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title.

T.F. Hodge

For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.

Epictetus

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.

R. J. Rushdooney

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Augustine of Hippo

One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.

Ayn Rand

What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?

Stanisław Lem

When you look in the mirror and see your reflection, your eyes are open; when you look in the mirror and see God, your soul is open.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Visible obstacles shine a light on hidden opportunities.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You never know what you will write until you write it

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Do not be to yourself more that God may be to you.

Sorin Cerin

To save all we must risk all.

Friedrich Schiller

As plants do not grow in the dark, never allow yourself to be in someone’s shadow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

...a man is not in any difficulty in making a reply according to his faith ... to those who try to defame our Holy Scripture. ... when they produce from any of their books a theory contrary to Scripture ... either we shall have some ability to demonstrate that it is absolutely false, or at least we ourselves will hold it so without any shadow of a doubt. ...let us choose [the doctrine] which appears as certainly the meaning intended by the author. ... For it is one thing to fail to recognize the primary meaning of the writer, and another to depart from the norms of religious belief.

Augustine of Hippo

A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves.

Simone Weil

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We should tend our freedom wisely.

Michel de Montaigne

Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.

Avicenna

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

Simone de Beauvoir

We should not value education as a means to prosperity but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition by forcing the student to stand back from it.

Roger Scruton

Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens

Bangambiki Habyarimana

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

Hélène Cixous

Racism watching is a puzzle solving activity and often involves debunking pseudo-science. The investigator must try to figure out what makes people believe in weird ideas. As Stieg said in an interview, ‘Fifty years later, people still believe in this; the whole Neo-Nazi movement. There is absolutely no sense in this. They do it contrary to everything science tells us. Contrary to human goodness or altruism, contrary to rational thinking. And this is fascinating, why?

Eric Bronson

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

Erich Fromm

What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.

Bertrand Russell

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

William James

I'd like to look below my eyes and see not language staring back at me, not sentences or single words or awkward pen lines, but a surface clear and burnished as glass.

William H. Gass

Achieving a goal requires endurance and sacrifices beyond limitations.

T.F. Hodge

Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Guy Debord

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content.

Alfred North Whitehead

Anger is loud, rage is deafening, and wrath is thunderous; only love can silence them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

Matshona Dhliwayo

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.

Jean Baudrillard

Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Thomas Carlyle

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

Immanuel Kant

Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices[.]

Rabindranath Tagore

There are no facts, only interpretations”“Truth is merely the final illusion” – Nietzsche (2003)Let this not stop us from being faithful to humanity andLoyal to our own duty to be spiritually human. Living within the ethic of reciprocity, or the Golden Rule, Will help us all achieve this goal.

Nietzche Friedrich

All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science) simply discloses to us the facts of reality to which theology must submit; rather, every discourse is, in some sense, religious. The playing field has been leveled. Theology is most persistently postmodern when it rejects a lingering correlational false humility and instead speaks unapologetically from the the primacy of Christian revelation and the church's confessional language.

James K.A. Smith

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

Umberto Eco

Love's weaknesses are better than hate's strengths.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly he said "That man does hot possess his estate but his estate possesses him."

Diogenes

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is never in this life is the making finished always it is in process always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Bernard Lonergan

Sedona is beautiful, but your soul is even more beautiful.

Ilchi Lee

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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