Quotes by Philosophers - Page 11

Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The greatest wisdom is to be happy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
True understanding lies beyond the desert
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Know the laws before you break them
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A cowardly warrior is like a toothless lion.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One does not become a great swimmer by swimming in shallow waters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble.
Matshona Dhliwayo
People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To see a man’s true colors, tell him you’re saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman’s true colors, tell her you’re poor.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Water has no mouth, but swallows many. Light has no hands, but touches many. Wind has no feet, but carries many. Darkness has no teeth, but devours many.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is impossible for light to bow before darkness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bee, though small, can still sting you; an elephant, though calm, can still trample you; a lion, though full, can still devour you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you touch a wound while it is healing, you will prolong it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The quickest way to find honey is to follow bees.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.
Criss Jami
I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
Criss Jami
The statue was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it.
Ayn Rand
God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys.
Criss Jami
It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!
Cornel West
As long as there is thirst in you, water can quench it; but you can live a kind of life in which you never feel thirsty; do not go in the sun, do no manual work, stay at home and relax and you will not feel the thirst. But then you will find no joy in drinking water. He who toils all day, enjoys the bliss of a good night’s rest. This is ironical: if you want to enjoy the pleasure of a good night’s sleep you have to work like a labourer all day. The trouble is that you want to spend your days like an emperor and your nights like a labourer.
Osho
Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When coming to sex: First served, first come.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A horny man is seen. A horny woman is heard.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about the size of their stretch marks.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love making is much more than physical expression, it is a soulful dance of sensual wonder and euphoric amazement.
T.F. Hodge
Sex is an open secret parents try to hide to their children
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you want to know about sex don't ask your parents. They don't have any and know nothing about it. Find out yourself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life occasionally humbles us by making us turned on by someone whom we turn off.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some women would not have contracted an STD or STDs had they not been on the pill.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than our fathers were. They are two exercises that thwart and hinder one another in their vigor. Lechery weakens our stomach on the one side; and on the other sobriety renders us more spruce and amorous for the exercise of love.
Michel de Montaigne
The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress.
Michel de Montaigne
Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another’s sex life.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.
Slavoj Žižek
When you're a light instead of a dim switch, your brightness radiates in every direction.
T.F. Hodge
If success is a miracle then you must be the miracle worker
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When you believe it, you've created it, whatever it is
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The reason you don't succeed in life is because you are too lenient with your deadly enemies. Identify them and eradicate them completely, don't let any of their seed escape your vengeful sword. Don't negotiate with the enemy and never make deals with them. Only after you have wiped them out of the map will success smile at you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't be afraid to bite on a giant, learn from the mosquito
Bangambiki Habyarimana
State what you want, and go for it, don't refuse yourself a request you did not make.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Every time someone starts a project he is considered nuts, until he beats all the odds and laughs the last.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...
Maurice Merleau-Ponty