Quotes by Philosophers - Page 343

The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This is why every man is a continuous ending.
Sorin Cerin
No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.
Sorin Cerin
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?
Sorin Cerin
We will never be more that we have been destined to be!
Sorin Cerin
The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie.
Sorin Cerin
Emptiness is this world’s greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?
Sorin Cerin
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Diogenes of Sinope
I hate wise men because they are lazy, cowardly, and prudent. To the philosophers' equanimity, which makes them indifferent to both pleasure and pain, I prefer devouring passions. The sage knows neither the tragedy of passion, nor the fear of death, nor risk and enthusiasm, nor barbaric, grotesque, or sublime heroism. He talks in proverbs and gives advice. He does not live, feel, desire, wait for anything. He levels down all the incongruities of life and then suffers the consequences. So much more complex is the man who suffers from limitless anxiety. The wise man's life is empty and sterile, for it is free from contradiction and despair. An existence full of irreconcilable contradictions is so much richer and creative. The wise man's resignation springs from inner void, not inner fire. I would rather die of fire than of void.
Emil M. Cioran
Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.
Thiruvalluvar
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant,because he knows that the body is nothing.
Swami Vivekananda
a problem well put is half solved.
John Dewey
Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.
Austin Dacey
It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.
Epictetus
Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self.
Sorin Cerin
Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.
Voltaire
Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht weißt. Das ist Wissen.
Confucius
Do not ever go out of yourself because you will get lost even from your life.
Sorin Cerin
To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom.
Sorin Cerin
If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us.
Sorin Cerin
We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent; his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil. For without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced. Nay, an honest man can do no good upon those that are wicked, to reclaim them, without the help of the knowledge of evil.
Francis Bacon
I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
Henry David Thoreau
you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.
Osho
respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.
Osho
From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.
T.F. Hodge
One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things – is that not a sage indeed?
Confucius
I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.
Confucius
It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
David Bentley Hart
It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.
Jean-Yves Leloup
all appears to change when we change
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion. The man in the worst confusion will end his life without ever getting straightened out; the biggest fool will end his life without ever seeing the light. If three men are traveling along and one is confused, they will still get where they are going - because confusion is in the minority. But if two of them are confused, then they can walk until they are exhausted and never get anywhere - because confusion is in the majority.
Zhuangzi
Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.
Confucius
The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.
Paul Brunton
I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.
Seneca
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.
Baltasar Gracián
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
Ptah-Hotep
When you love you give meaning to this world.
Sorin Cerin
Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.
Paul Brunton
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.
Confucius
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
Michel de Montaigne
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
Mortimer J. Adler
Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.
Noah Benshea
Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.
T.F. Hodge
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
Aristotle
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.
Isocrates
we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood
William James
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
Mortimer J. Adler
he who is greedy is always in want
Horace
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.
Henry David Thoreau
We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
Isaiah Berlin
People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Henry David Thoreau
Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.
Criss Jami
It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.
Paul Brunton