Quotes by Philosophers - Page 369

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
Albert Camus
...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).
Karl Marx
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
Michel de Montaigne
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. "Watson" he says, "look up in the sky and tell me what you see.""I see millions of stars, Holmes," says Watson."And what do you conclude from that, Watson?"Watson thinks for a moment. "Well," he says, "astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meterologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I see that God is all-powerful, and we are small and insignficant. Uh, what does it tell you, Holmes?""Watson, you idiot! Someone has stolen our tent!
Thomas Cathcart
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
Osho
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
G.K. Chesterton
I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.
Allen Ginsberg
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
René Descartes
I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
Criss Jami
If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.
Gilles Deleuze
Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
Criss Jami
Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)
Blaise Pascal
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
Albert Camus
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
Criss Jami
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
Socrates
Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
G.K. Chesterton
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)
Voltaire
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G.K. Chesterton
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Bertrand Russell
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
C.E.M. Joad
Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.
Markus Herz
To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it
Confucius
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
Peter Kreeft
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Convictions are prisons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.
Criss Jami
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
Criss Jami
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
Aldous Huxley
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of people be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved integrity. Do not lose your knowledge that our proper estate is an upright posture,an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it's yours.
Ayn Rand
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
Thomas Paine
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
Friedrich Nietzsche
We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
Augustine of Hippo
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.
Lao Tzu
Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
Marcus Aurelius
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
Plotinus
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
Swami Vivekananda
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
Lao Tzu
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
Marcus Aurelius
When the wind blows,the grass bends.
Confucius
I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
Augustine of Hippo