Quotes by Philosophers - Page 257

A diamond is pressure's masterpiece.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An acorn is an oak tree inside out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be who your enemies dread you'll become.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You don't scale a mountain with your mouth, but with your feet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion never loses sleep over a sheep's sentiments.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius
Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down.
Stefan Molyneux
Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." And universal history is the gigantic and thousand-year effort to go on putting order into that huge, disorderly, anti-animal fantasy. What we call reason is no more than fantasy put into shape. Is there anything in the world more fantastic than that which is the most rational? Is there anything more fantastic than the mathematical point, and the infinite line, and, in general, all mathematics and all physics? Is there a more fantastic fancy than what we call "justice" and the other thing that we call "happiness"?
José Ortega y Gasset
People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.
Criss Jami
It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.
Criss Jami
Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.
Criss Jami
Depression, which lives below the horizon, is the result of painting and entertaining negative imagery - most of which has not taken place in reality. Get up, move, and appreciate that which is given. What is lacking is usually material and heavily influenced by external forces. Don't play yourself, save yourself.
T.F. Hodge
Elves are extremely long-lived -- the passing years are but a blink of an eye to them. What also sets them apart from us is the very narrow window during which they can procreate, and, as a natural consequence, their very low fertility. The Aen Seidhe believe this to be the main reason for their decline. As one of my elven friends put it, "Even though we fought like wolves, we lost to a race which fucks like rabbits.
David Hodgson
The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is.They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world.
Jean Baudrillard
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
Criss Jami
(Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world.
Vladimir Odoyevsky
The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has been said, essentially in showing the world as opaque, as inaccessible to reason on principle. This happens when Piranesi in his imagined prisons depicts a world peopled by other beings than those for which it was created. ("On the Fantastic in Literature")
Lars Gustafsson
Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.
Robert Musil
His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing
Criss Jami
Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.
Criss Jami
One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!
Friedrich Nietzsche
The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.
Thiruvalluvar
Sometimes a loved one might not 'spit' the message in the most tender or poetic fashion that suits you, but don't allow a rugged style to blind you from a loving intent. It's the spirit of the message one must receive beyond [the] perception of one's senses; be mindful of hearing with the heart.
T.F. Hodge
Love is never blind; it sees with ucute clarity. A closed mind, wounded heart, and a bitter disposition surely cannot perceive love's myriad ways of communicating.
T.F. Hodge
Quite often it's not about what is said, but what isn't. And even when it's spoken, read between the lines. Listening with the heart is just as important as hearing with the mind.
T.F. Hodge
While learning others, respect demands that one never takes issue with another's freedom to choose their 'get down' - their way of living... and don't be mad. But carefully listen, observe, and compare mental notes before you open your heart's desire -- to make a clear determination what's in your best interest. If you already know how the story ends, and it doesn't fit you, keep [the] proper distance in perspective, in any form(s) of relationship, for the love of self. It may be disappointing, but you'll eventually discover the right one deserving of your full attention. Or, you may be surprised by their sudden awakening to your worthiness. Walk slowly, especially, when it comes to matters of the heart.
T.F. Hodge
When a turbulent mind and wounded heart surrenders to grace, breathing is easy.
T.F. Hodge
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Voltaire
To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.
Criss Jami
Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.
Arrian
A fruitless year, take a fearless heartOne that blooms late will flourish in the dark
Criss Jami
When exercising gifted will-power, move boldly without hesitation. The reward for such decisiveness is increased confidence in what the heart knows, which the mind does not feel
T.F. Hodge
The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.
Criss Jami
A good head and a bad heart make a good politician
Bangambiki Habyarimana
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Augustine of Hippo
It is not true that the heart wears out — but the body creates this illusion.
Albert Camus
We often use the Bible as a source for personal validation and defense, a sidekick and a shield, but these will prove ineffective without first the other part. We must also allow ourselves to be wounded by it. We tend to forget its authority - that it is a double-edged sword. Our decrepit, depraved hearts must be completely ripped out in order to welcome that of God.
Criss Jami
I cannot conceive that the man who dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a machine. He also had a heart, just like you. He also had his wife and children, his old mother and father. He was as much a human being as you are—with a difference. He was trained to follow orders without questioning, and when the order was given, he simply followed it.
Osho
I wouldn't think that God is quite as much concerned with whether or not one actually sins as He is with whether or not in one's heart one genuinely wants to turn from sin; and therefore, continues working passionately with Him in doing so. It is not some pleasure of God's, as some might imagine, to stand around critiquing, arms crossed, holding a whip. I suppose that when someone weeps over their sins, He extends His hands; He wants them to lift their head and embrace Him and the mercy He's willing to show. But when someone is proud of their sins, He delivers His justice swiftly and righteously. Sin does not intimidate God - although He takes it very seriously - it does no real harm to Him whatsoever, only to the sinner and to other people: and He loves people.
Criss Jami
We are defined as artists by the pull of our hearts, not the creation of our hands.
Edward Mooney
Teaching comes through the head, learning happens through the heart.
Osho
When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on the opposite end of that of most of my peers. I sometimes wonder if this is nothing more than the misguidedness and the wickedness of my own heart. I wonder other times if God wires some of us in such a way so that fair discourse might then be provided, so that honest and unbiased, due process is ultimately more likely to be carried out. Perhaps it is all necessary for variance of perception, for mindful debate: that the heart is meant to create a bit of bias on certain issues; as between one another, they weigh and balance. For not all hearts are the same.
Criss Jami
This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.
Osho
The human heart is a dark, unyielding mystery. It is a perforated jug with a mouth forever open; though all rivers of the earth pour in, it will remain empty and thirsting. The greatest of hopes had not filled it. Would it be filled now by the greatest of despairs? (Report to Greco)
N. Kazantzakis
there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart
Iris Murdoch
Many smiling faces hide a bleeding heart
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Play with the emotions, play with the heart and the animal will surrender to yo
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Even the devils are theists. I am of all people one of the least qualified to judge, but I do believe that some atheists are closer to God than are some theists. With Him, it is better to be distant in the mind but near in the heart than it is to be distant in the heart but near in the mind.
Criss Jami
The legions who attempt to love without Christ, without a new heart, are indeed able to love amongst themselves; however this love is made possible by restraining any anger or hatred deep within the old heart, only to release it all on whichever village idiot(s) they collectively feel a crucifixion would be justified.
Criss Jami
I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.
Rabindranath Tagore
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
Eric Hoffer
You are the sole owner of your heart, so be careful of whom you give access to.
Gift Gugu Mona
We all want to look good, but genuine goodness is in the heart.
Gift Gugu Mona
Prayer is not a court hearing, so when you pray don't aim to prove before God how others wronged you; because He knows every heart already.
Gift Gugu Mona
Every time you hurt my heart, you are actually making it stronger than before.
Gift Gugu Mona