Quotes by Philosophers - Page 334

Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission.
T.F. Hodge
The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within.
T.F. Hodge
One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.
T.F. Hodge
Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it.
T.F. Hodge
Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one!
T.F. Hodge
The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed.
T.F. Hodge
You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.
T.F. Hodge
Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.
T.F. Hodge
Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon...a place for lonesome hearts.
T.F. Hodge
Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.
T.F. Hodge
Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!
T.F. Hodge
Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.
T.F. Hodge
Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love spiritually, not strategically.
T.F. Hodge
Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.
T.F. Hodge
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
Blaise Pascal
To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.
T.F. Hodge
Head up, heart open. To better days!
T.F. Hodge
The sky is not my limit...I am.
T.F. Hodge
This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these lunatics to go down into their dark room and die for something that they could not even understand. The barrel-organ seemed to give the marching tune with the energy and the mingled noises of a whole orchestra; and he could hear deep and rolling, under all the trumpets of the pride of life, the drums of the pride of death.
G.K. Chesterton
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.
Susan Sontag
You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them. I have noticed this point too, my friends, that in soldiering the people whose one aim is to keep alive usually find a wretched and dishonorable death, while the people who, realizing that death is the common lot of all men, make it their endeavour to die with honour, somehow seem more often to reach old age and to have a happier life when they are alive. These are facts which you too should realize (our situation demands it) and should show that you yourselves are brave men and should call on the rest to do likewise.
Xenophon
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
Iris Murdoch
So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
Iris Murdoch
So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.
Zhuangzi
Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding death.
Titus Lucretius Carus
The Death's Field is the mirror which allows us the knowledge of the world we living in.
Sorin Cerin
I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.
Thomas Nagel
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
Simone de Beauvoir
It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: "Close the window, it's too beautiful.
Albert Camus
The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death.
Sorin Cerin
Search for the stranger inside you, forgotten even by your death.
Sorin Cerin
Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.
Sorin Cerin
If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.
Jean de La Bruyère
I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.
Thiruvalluvar
[A] right understanding that death is nothingto us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to itan infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving forimmortality. For there is nothing terrible in life for the man who hastruly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.
Epicurus
The Thought of Death. It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this confusion of streets, of necessities, of voices: how much enjoyment, impatience and desire, how much thirsty life and drunkenness of life comes to light here every moment! And yet it will soon be so still for all these shouting, lively, life- loving people! How everyone's shadow, his gloomy travelling companion stands behind him! It is always as in the last moment before the departure of an emigrant- ship: people have more than ever to say to one another, the hour presses, the ocean with its lonely silence waits impatiently behind all the noise-so greedy, so certain of its prey! And all, all, suppose that the past has been nothing, or a small matter, that the near future is everything: hence this haste, this crying, this self-deafening and self-overreaching! Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death! I would fain do something to make the idea of life to us to be more than friends in the sense of that sublime possibility. And so we will believe in our even a hundred times more worthy of their attention.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Death is a continuation of my life without me...
Jean-Paul Sartre
How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your credulity caused me! A thousand times I was on the point of breaking out publicly and opening your eyes, but a fear stronger than myself held me back, and forced me to keep silence until my death.
Jean Meslier
We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.
Marcus Aurelius
Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the lull that follows battle; it was the silence of defeat. But the silence now enveloping his dead friend, so dense, so much akin to the nocturnal silence of the streets and of the town set free at last, made Rieux cruelly aware that this defeat was final, the last disastrous battle that ends a war and makes peace itself an ill beyond all remedy. The doctor could not tell if Tarrou had found peace, now that all was over, but for himself he had a feeling that no peace was possible to him henceforth, any more than there can an armistice for a mother bereaved of a son or for a man who buries his friend.
Albert Camus
What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?
Sorin Cerin
The only advantage of knowledge is that it can justify suffering.
Sorin Cerin
Who can be worried without the light of a memory?
Sorin Cerin
Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death.
Muriel Barbery
What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events. We know time to be a hurricane. Our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines in which we now take inordinate pride will seem no less bathetic than Yorick's skull.
Alain de Botton
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.
Epicurus
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.
George Santayana
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
George Santayana
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
Jean Baudrillard
The South-wind bringsLife, sunshine and desire,And on every mount and meadowBreathes aromatic fire;But over the dead he has no power,The lost, the lost, he cannot restore;And, looking over the hills, I mournThe darling who shall not return.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten—since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably. Still, somehow this line of thought wasn't as consoling as it should have been; the idea of all those years of life in hand was a galling reminder!
Albert Camus
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin
Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.
Criss Jami
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
Epicurus
For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
John Ruskin
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
Søren Kierkegaard