Philosopher Quotes

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

My ship came in,then it sank!

Your looks will introduce you, but your character and personality will make them to like you,love you and they would want to keep you.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.

Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and creeds. But their message is one and the same, don't you see? He only wishes to unite all His children under one family tree.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.

Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence -rassool jibraeel snyman

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

the problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.

If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.

Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.

May your eyes be the eyes of truthAnd guided from deception

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.

I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

Producers problems is in need of vocalist and Vocalist problems is in need of a Studio.

As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.