Quotes by Authors - Page 5018

...the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.
G.K. Chesterton
Sometimes the only way to succeed is to fail backwards
Benny Bellamacina
What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*
Josh Gates
If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? That there is a part of man that man wants to reject? That man wants to keep from knowing what he is? That he wants to protect himself from seeing that he is something awful? And that this 'awful' part of himself might not be as awful as he thinks, but he finds it too strange and he does not know what to do with it? We talk about what to do with the atom bomb...But man's heart, his spirit is the deadliest thing in creation. Are not all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves which they wish, in their deep timidity, to try to preserve? Are not all of man's efforts at order an attempt to still man's fear of himself?
Richard Wright
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'dVanity makes beauty contemptibleWisdom is more valuable than riches.
Abraham Verghese
Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change
Benny Bellamacina
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
Giacomo Casanova
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)
Jostein Gaarder
One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
Marcel Proust
He was still thoughtful. 'Do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?' 'Philosophy, Lord Dryden? And yet it's daylight and everyone is still sober.
Julie Anne Long
If chance be the Father of all flesh, Disaster is his rainbow in the sky, And when you hear State of Emergency! Sniper Kills Ten! Troops on Rampage! Whites go Looting! Bomb Blasts School! It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker.
Steve Turner
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
Milan Kundera
The Getsmart PrayerI do my laundry and you do yours,I am not in this life to listen to your ceaseless yammering,And you are not in this world for any discernable reason at all.You are you, and I am I, and I got the better deal.And if by chance we find each other, it will be unspeakably tedious.Fuck off.
Jon Carroll
If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve
Benny Bellamacina
When you can't get what you want, get what you need
Benny Bellamacina
An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.
Ilyas Kassam
To question reason is to trust it.
Mitch Stokes
Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.
Gregory Maguire
An over examination of life can deter you from life itself
Ilyas Kassam
Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.
Ilyas Kassam
There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless,and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.
Ilyas Kassam
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
Noël Coward
For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought
Søren Kierkegaard
In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
Chögyam Trungpa
Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.
Khushwant Singh
Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.
Lawrence M. Krauss
In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell
Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.
Raheel Farooq
When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic particles touch!
Felix Alba-Juez
It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!
Felix Alba-Juez
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
Felix Alba-Juez
You can change your mind, don't let your mind change you
Benny Bellamacina
Other people are only aspects of our own greater being.
Doug Dillon
When you’ve tried everything and failed, try everything else and succeed
Benny Bellamacina
We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.
Doug Dillon
Who are you? No really. Way, way down deep. Who are you?
Doug Dillon
To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.
Felix Alba-Juez
Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.
Felix Alba-Juez
I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.
Alice Bag
Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.
Ilyas Kassam
Want less, live more
Benny Bellamacina
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
Joyce Carol Oates
Love will never let you down, if you don't give it up
Benny Bellamacina
The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.
Criss Jami
People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?
Martha Louise Hunter
Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.
Amit Kalantri
Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.
Amit Kalantri
Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
Criss Jami
If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion
Benny Bellamacina
This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.
Daniel Klein
Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.
Amit Kalantri
Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.
Amit Kalantri
Every new day is an opportunity to grow your love.
Debasish Mridha
I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in physics and philosophy and thought about those. It is a little shortened but not quite wrong to say: I thought I am not good enough for physics and I am too good for philosophy. Mathematics is in between.
George Pólya
There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.
Jo Walton
Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit of the whoop and the giggle, right?
Hunter S. Thompson
Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
Erich Maria Remarque
Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.
Amit Kalantri