Quotes by Philosophers - Page 120

Even gods are following trends. They are afraid to be forgotten by their creators
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Science does not need religion. Religion does not need science. And the twain shall never meet
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I love theologians, they know god cannot speak so they spend their energy trying to explain to us what his silence means
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Faith turns mountains into pebbles. Fear turns pebbles into mountains.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who trusts God at all costs will be rewarded at all costs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Gods can only keep their promises in books
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Even if god was proved beyond doubt that he did not exist. We would still believe in him. We don't need hard facts, we need true emotions.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
At the end of faith there is always some calamity
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Many people don't know they have stopped believing in god. Their neighbors do
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Once you let them establish their ideology in you, they will drive you crazy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We are gods but we are afraid of the ensuing responsibility; that's why we prefer to remain slaves. Only if we dared to rise up to the challenge and assume our divinity, we could perform most of the miracles we pray for.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Billions of years before I was born I did not need religion, why should I need it, billions of years after I cease to exist
Bangambiki Habyarimana
God does not take sides. He is always on the side of the winner
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am not afraid of what god can do to me. He is already doing it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't be alarmed, the god I am trying to kill is the one I hate, not the one I love
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life is stripped of its flavor when folks are told that hell is waiting for them
Bangambiki Habyarimana
False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet known
Bangambiki Habyarimana
God is what you imagine him to be
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Do not become more useful than God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot walk on water or move mountains without faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The rewards of faith are beyond doubt.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You don't need faith to walk on the riverbank, you need faith to walk on water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Perpetual optimism is good for the mind.Perpetual hope is good for the heart.Perpetual faith is good for the heart.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great faith equals great power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Uncommon faith gives you uncommon power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When faith touches your heart, you can walk on water.When fear pricks your soul, you can sink on land.With a great mind, you can achieve countless things.With a strong heart, you can achieve extraordinary things.With a loving soul, you can achieve impossible things.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Walking on water is better than drowning.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An ounce of faith can overcome a ton of fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is difficult to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of doubt, impossible to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of fear, but conceivable to soar to your destiny carried by the wings of faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith is irrational, which is why those who exercise it are rewarded irrationally.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Exercise your faith and you exorcise your fears.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A great storm is like a sunny day to a person of great faith. A gentle wind is like a great storm to a person of great fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fear makes a cub sound like a lion.Faith makes a lion sound like a cub.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What you give today you get tomorrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about how his soul will burn in the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am going and I don't know where I am going. I leave you searching for answers. When I get there, if there is any way to come back either spiritually or physically or through a revelation, I will let you know what I have experienced. Of course some will not believe me or the one I send
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If God had a wife, He would be in trouble too if He dodged His chores.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Turbulence means nothing if God is the pilot.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Any seed that is planted by God bears fruit even before it touches the ground.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Before you ask God to bless you, give Him a reason to.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
Iris Murdoch
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Dante Alighieri
For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is at least partly responsible for one's actions, and if one is partly responsible one is wholly responsible; for responsibility is, as they say, that state in which the individual has the power to devote himself to a specific purpose of his own free will, independently of any compelling necessity, and one cannot simultaneously possess and lack such self-determination.
Robert Musil
But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is too easy to claim that serious things must be, and can almost afford to be, a bit boring. The challenge is to transcend the current dichotomy between those outlets that offer thoughtful but impotent instruction on the one hand and those that provide sensationalism stripped of responsibility on the other.
Alain de Botton
To re-establish man at the heart of his destiny is, they claim, to repudiate all ethics. However, far from God's absence authorizing all license, the contrary is the case, because man is abandoned on the earth, because his acts are definitive, absolute engagements. He bears the responsibility for a world which is not the work of a strange power, but of himself, where his defeats are inscribed, & his victories as well.
Simone de Beauvoir
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
Edmund Burke
What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilated on the television screen. We are in the era of events without consequences (and of theories without consequences).
Jean Baudrillard
Every leader has a right to lead followers in the right direction and the responsibility to empower them to achieve much more.
Gift Gugu Mona
Great leaders do not shift responsibility even if it means acknowledging their own failures.
Gift Gugu Mona
It is the brain's full and absolute responsibility to evolve, nobody will do it for it, and grace and salvation do not exist. The brain must take its place as the source of grace and learn to operate itself properly. In fact, its transformation will begin when it will bear all responsibility alone.
Shai Tubali
A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.
Criss Jami
The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
Ayn Rand
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
Noam Chomsky
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn. The entire history of social improvement has been a series of transitions, by which one custom or institution after another, from being a supposed primary necessity of social existence, has passed into the rank of a universally stigmatised injustice and tyranny. So it has been with the distinctions of slaves and freemen, nobles and serfs, patricians and plebeians; and so it will be, and in part already is, with the aristocracies of colour, race, and sex.
John Stuart Mill
It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls.
Voltaire
The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "protect the family name"(as if the moral stature of one man could be damaged by the actions of another)-the bum who boasts that his great-grandfather was an empire-builder, or the small-town spinster who boasts that her maternal great-uncle was a state senator and her third cousin gave a concert at carnegie hall (as if the achievement of one man could rub off on the mediocrity of another)-the parents who search geneological trees in order to evaluate their prospective son-in-law.-the celebrity who starts his autobiography with a detailed account of his family history -All these are samples of racism.
Ayn Rand
Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.
Ayn Rand