Quotes by Philosophers - Page 342

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
Ralph Waldo Emerson
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Seneca
When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.
Bertrand Russell
I understand why King Solomon asked for wisdom from God. For wisdom is like oil to a lamp, what would be the essence of having a lamp without oil in darkness?.
Gift Gugu Mona
From the sadness, learn something; from the happiness, learn something. From the setback, learn something and even from the success learn something. Never stop learning from any situation in life, for that is where the wisdom lies.
Gift Gugu Mona
Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom.
Criss Jami
I will always appreciate those who made me go through rough times because without those, I wouldn't have the wisdom and power that lies within me now.
Gift Gugu Mona
What are the occupations of the sage? He resigns himself to seeing, to eating, etc…., he accepts in spite of himself this “wound with nine openings,” which is what the Bhagavad-Gita calls the body.―Wisdom? To undergo with dignity the humiliation inflicted upon us by our holes.
Emil M. Cioran
It is wise to admit one's wrongs because it creates room for correction.
Gift Gugu Mona
Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.
Bertrand Russell
I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I should succeed in disproving the oracle and pointing out to my divine authority 'You said that I was the wisest of men, but here is a man who is wiser than I am.' Well, I gave a thorough examination to this person... and in conversation with him I formed the impression that although in many people's opinion, and especially in his own, he appeared to be wise, in fact he was not. Then when I began to try to show him that he only thought he was wise and was not really so, my efforts were resented both by him and by many of the other people present. However, I reflected as I walked away: 'Well, I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know... [A]s I pursued my investigation at the god's command,... my honest impression was... that the people with the greatest reputations were almost entirely deficient, while others who were supposed to be their inferiors were much better qualified in practical intelligence.
Socrates
...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.
Socrates
The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice or by design.
T.F. Hodge
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...
Simone de Beauvoir
A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.
Matshona Dhliwayo
¿Preguntas cúal es el fundamento de la sabiduría? No gozarte en cosas vanas.
Seneca
If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for all time; and indeed it would seem now that it will be extremely dangerous to neglect it. If death were a release from everything, it would be a boon for the wicked, because by dying they would be released not only from the body but also from their own wickedness together with the soul; but as it is, since the soul is clearly immortal, it can have no escape of security from evil except by becoming as good and wise as it possibly can. For it takes nothing with it to the next world except its education and training...
Socrates
Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.
Alfred North Whitehead
El sabio puede cambiar de opinión. El necio, nunca.
Immanuel Kant
Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
Zeno of Citium
Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor. Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile! What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth? For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in their work.
Solomon
As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.
Marcus Aurelius
The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You are always afraid that somebody may think you a fool. You are afraid that if others think you to be a fool, you will start suspecting it. If so many people think you a fool your self-confidence will be lost. And if everybody goes on repeating that you are a fool, sooner or later you will come to believe it.Only a wise man cannot be deceived, he can appear as a fool.Have you observed yourself? You are always trying to exhibit your wisdom, always in search of a victim to whom you can show your knowledge, just searching, hunting for somebody weaker than you – then you will jump in and you will show your wisdom.A wise man need not be an exhibitionist. Whatsoever is, is. He is not aware of it, he is not in any hurry to show it. If you want to find it, you will have to make efforts. If you have to know whether he is gentle or not, that is going to be your discovery.
Osho
The Wise are Superb Observers of Nature and Rise Superior to the Blows of Fortune
Philo of Alexandria
A humble heart, a friendly look, a smile on the face is really what you need to break the ice, not a very big axe.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.
Sorin Cerin
Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth?
Sorin Cerin
TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death.
Sorin Cerin
We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity.
Sorin Cerin
To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it.
Sorin Cerin
The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.
Sorin Cerin
Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.
Sorin Cerin
Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities.
Sorin Cerin
We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion.
Sorin Cerin
To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death.
Sorin Cerin
The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death.
Sorin Cerin
We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face.
Sorin Cerin
Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.
Sorin Cerin
Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Francis Bacon
Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.
Sorin Cerin
Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?
Sorin Cerin
Even the snow melts, let alone the frugal regards of a soul confident in its own eternity.
Sorin Cerin
Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.
Emil M. Cioran
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
Criss Jami
The worship of power is an old religion.
George Santayana
It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.
Criss Jami
Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.
Criss Jami
There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.
G.K. Chesterton
The heart that gives, gathers.
Lao Tzu
Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I’ve exhausted every possibility.
Confucius
I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
Criss Jami
You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
Criss Jami
Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.
Criss Jami
Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.
Criss Jami
Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.
Confucius
Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?
Confucius
Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...
Seneca