Quotes by Philosophers - Page 2

A slap from God is better than a handshake from the devil.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What sinks the devil sails the Christian.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We go to Europe to be Americanized.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
Noam Chomsky
The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.
Noam Chomsky
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
Umberto Eco
Who can believe in illusion even if we all live the Illusion of Life?
Sorin Cerin
Who can say that he is not everything?
Sorin Cerin
You can just be your self’s stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!
Sorin Cerin
Who can play without wanting to succeed even with a sentimentally gain?
Sorin Cerin
Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self.
Sorin Cerin
No tiredness can destroy hope like death can, as the absolute fatigue of life.
Sorin Cerin
Do not be to yourself more that God may be to you.
Sorin Cerin
We can never succeed in knowing our own self without holidays and anniversaries.
Sorin Cerin
Heroes are the saints of every nation.
Sorin Cerin
Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death.
Sorin Cerin
No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten stranger inside him.
Sorin Cerin
Nothing can be more painful than the cry of the word which gave us the inspiration to dream of love.
Sorin Cerin
Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death.
Sorin Cerin
We are a being only through our Illusion of Life.
Sorin Cerin
We will never be more than we are meant to be!
Sorin Cerin
Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always choose to learn from others.
Gift Gugu Mona
There is no such thing as "the right to enslave".A nation can do it , just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right. It doesn't matter in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force (like soviet Russia), or by vote (like Nazi Germany).
Ayn Rand
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)
John Ralston Saul
The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds, the effective exercise of a right springing not from the individual who possesses it, but from other men who consider themselves as being under a certain obligation towards him. Recognition of an obligation makes it effectual. An obligation which goes unrecognized by anybody loses none of the full force of its existence. A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much. It makes nonsense to say that men have, on the one hand, rights, and on the other hand, obligations. Such words only express differences in point of view. The actual relationship between the two is as between object and subject. A man, considered in isolation, only has duties, amongst which are certain duties towards himself. A man left alone in the universe would have no rights whatever, but he would have obligations.
Simone Weil
The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienabl e right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.
Carl Friedrich Bahrdt
What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.
Edmund Burke
If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.
Émilie Du Châtelet
Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEINGHAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even peopleBEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people
Erich Fromm
The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.
Charles Eisenstein
In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved them forward. But that's not so unusual. Let's look at our own history. Take the civil rights movement. There had been plenty of concern and activism about violent repression of blacks in the South, and it took a couple of students sitting in at a lunch counter to really set it off. Small acts can make a big difference when there is a background of concern, understanding, and preliminary activism.
Noam Chomsky
I remember the philosopher Bertrand Russell was asked why he spent his time protesting against nuclear war and getting arrested on demonstrations. Why didn’t he continue to work on the serious philosophical and logical problems which have major intellectual significance? And his answer was pretty good. He said: “Look, if I and others like me only work on those problems, there won’t be anybody around to appreciate it or be interested.
Chomsky Noam
You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil things.
Slavoj Žižek
As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The hotter the furnace the finer the gold.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Through storms you are able to get all the colors you need to paint the rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The darkest clouds precipitate the most rain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are no greater than the adversity you can handle.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Flowers have to stretch to bloom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your mind is greater than your problems,your heart is greater than your troubles,your soul is greater than your temptations,and your God is greater than your obstacles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pain frees you from complacency.Tears free you from sorrow.Weaknesses free you from pride.Adversity frees from boredom.Challenges free you from monotony.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is at night, not in the day, that stars shine the brightest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Impossible is what you say to yourself when you have given up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Only because of darkness are we able to clearly see the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Adversity is the evil twin of reward.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your breaking point is often your blessing point.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As water drowns but also cleanses, so adversity scalds but also blesses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Present trials strengthen you for future blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The tree that stands to the tempest is strong;the tree that refuses to bend, the strongest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Adversity is opportunity inside out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Adversity is the door to opportunity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The further you are in the wilderness, the closer the Promised Land is.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greater the pressure, the greater the treasure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great tests precede great blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your next victory is behind your next test.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Trials are part of the adventure to greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is at midnight, not midday, that stars shine the brightest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.
Matshona Dhliwayo