Quotes by Philosophers - Page 136

If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature, In other words, there is no determinism, man is free, man is freedom. On the other hand, if God does not exist, we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct. So, in the bright realm of values, we have no excuses behind us, no justification before us. We are alone with no excuses.This is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet in other respects is free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre
What shall I take with me?Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?How shall my heart act?Is it that we come in vain to live,to sprout over the earth?Let us leave at least flowers,let us leave at least songs.
Nezahualcóyotl
Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to....Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to.
Stanisław Lem
It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life is an activity with which we kill time while we wait for something, someone, or the mere passage of time to kill us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.
Erich Fromm
Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?
Osho
Existence simply responds to you: whatsoever you are, existence gives you more of that. If you have many flowers within your being flowering, a million times more flowers will shower on you.
Osho
Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and the name of that order is Tao.
Osho
There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.
Osho
The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.
William James
Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist.
Baruch Spinoza
I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go and put itself on the thing. It stays what it is, with its red plush, thousands of little red paws in the air, all still, little dead paws. This enormous belly turned upward, bleeding, inflated—bloated with all its dead paws, this belly floating in this car, in this grey sky, is not a seat. It could just as well be a dead donkey tossed about in the water, floating with the current, belly in the air in a great grey river, a river of floods; and I could be sitting on the donkey's belly, my feet dangling in the clear water.
Jean-Paul Sartre
But “nowhere” does not mean nothing; rather, region in general lies therein, and disclosedness of the world in general for essentially spatial being-in. Therefore, what is threatening cannot come closer from a definite direction within nearness, it is already “there” - and yet nowhere. It is so near that it is oppressive and takes one’s breath - and yet it is nowhere.
Martin Heidegger
Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every entity. Its 'universality' is to be sought higher up. Being and the structure of Being lie beyond every entity and every possible character which an entity may possess. *Being is a transcendens pure and simple*. And the transcendence of Dasein's Being is distinctive in that it implies the possibility and the necessity of the most radical *individuation*. Every disclosure of Being as the *transcendens* is *transcendental* knowledge. *Phenomenological truth (the disclosedness of Being) is veritas transcendentalis*.Ontology and phenomenology are not two distinct philosophical disciplines among others. These terms characterize philosophy itself with regard to its object and its way of treating that object. Philosophy is universal phenomenological ontology, and takes its departure from the hermeneutic of Dasein, which, as an analytic of *existence*, has made fast the guide-line for all philosophical inquiry at the point where it *arises* and to which it *returns*."―from_Being and Time_. Translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson, p. 62
Martin Heidegger
I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
Stanisław Lem
We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
Emil M. Cioran
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
Jostein Gaarder
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.
Jostein Gaarder
The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see.
Kedar Joshi
Here, fire turns into water;Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun.There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction;Everything supports everything else.
Osho
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
Jean-Paul Sartre
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth
Thiruvalluvar
Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity
Augustine of Hippo
Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Baltasar Gracián
Those who build are greater than those who tear down.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great things sometimes have small beginnings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A wounded lion is still more fierce than healthy sheep.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Greatness lies on the other side of fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot aspire for greatness and fit in at the same time.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest you is found in the kindest you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The first step to accomplishing the impossible is to achieve it in your mind.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The secret to greatness:do what has been overlooked by the great.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest among you are those with the greatest love.The richest among you are those with the most joy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Raging winds and clashing seasshould not keep you from victory.Stormy winds and raging seasgive birth to great destinies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are only greater than what you overcome.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The great compete not only against others, but against themselves.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Think like the great,speak like the great,act like the great,and you will become like the great.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your greatest actions are those that meet another’s greatest need.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Failure is the school of greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Character is greatness inside out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Originality is the death of mediocrity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The biggest melon started off a small seed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great deeds begin in the mind,extraordinary deeds begin in the heart,and remarkable deeds begin in the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great minds birth great ideas.Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas.Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Darkness tests stars,but they shine.Storms test trees,but they stand.Adversity tests the great,but they soar.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Do the possible, and let God do the impossible.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Ordinary people think you are crazy when you attempt the impossible, deride you when you are halfway to achieving it, and envy you when you achieve it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
God in you is the greatness in you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Become so good they can't ingore you,and you are on the path to success.Become so good they can't stand you,and you are on the path to greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are tired of walking to your destiny, sprint.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To enter the door of greatness you need the key of faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never expect wolves to behave like sheep.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The great are inspired. The extraordinary inspire.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you reach the mountaintop look upand think of how high you must leap to reach the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great wildernesses lead you to great Promised Lands.
Matshona Dhliwayo