Quotes by Philosophers - Page 95

Cultural criticism always attacks the mass media. I don't think that makes sense. We should look more closely at the work of deformation that starts deeper down, especially because it involves so much demoralization. Something gets destroyed there that should not be destroyed under any circumstances - THE AWARENESS THAT KNOWLEDGE IS BORN OUT OF EUPHORIA AND THAT INTELLIGENCE IS A RELATIONSHIP OF THE HAPPY CONSCIOUSNESS WITH ITSELF. And that intelligence partly consists in the ability to find our own ways of overcoming the boredom that develops in an under-used brain. Across society as a whole, the most disturbing symptom is that people are no longer ambitious enough to plumb the limits of understanding within themselves. INTELLIGENCE IS THE LAST UTOPIAN POTENTIAL. THE ONLY TERRA INCOGNITA HUMANKIND STILL OWNS ARE THE GALAXIES OF THE BRAIN, THE MILKY WAYS OF INTELLIGENCE. And there is hardly any any convincing space travel in them. Incidentally, this internal astronautics is the only alternative to a consumerist perspective. It is the only thing that could explain to people in the future that their intelligence space is so immense that they can experiment with themselves for millennia without becoming exhausted. The really good news is that there is something breathtakingly great that is called intelligence and is uncharted. ARE YOU WILLING TO VOLUNTEER ?
Peter Sloterdijk
Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brain structure and function, and how the mind works. Then there is an art of self knowledge, which each person has to develop for himself. This art must lead one to be sensitive to how his basically false approach to life is always tending to generate conflict and confusion. The role of art here is therefore not to provide a symbolism, but rather to teach the artistic spirit of sensitive perception of the individual and particular phenomena of one's own psyche. This spirit is needed if one is to understand the relevance of general scientific knowledge to his own special problems, as well as to give effect to the scientific spirit of seeing the fact about one's self as it is, whether on elikes it or not, and thus helping to end conflict.Such an approach is not possible, however, unless one has the spirit that meets life wholly and totally. We still need the religious spirit, but today we no longer need the religious mythology, which is now introducing an irrelevant and confusing element into the whole question.Itwould seem, then, that in some ways the modern person must manage to create a total approach to life which accomplishes what was done in earlier days by science, art and religion, but in a new way that is appropriate to the modern conditions of life. An important part of such an action is to see what the relationshipbetween science and art now actually is, and to understand the direction in which this relationship might develop.
David Bohm
Except in a very few matches, usually with world-class performers, there is a point in every match (and in some cases it's right at the beginning) when the loser decides he's going to lose. And after that, everything he does will be aimed at providing an explanation of why he will have lost. He may throw himself at the ball (so he will be able to say he's done his best against a superior opponent). He may dispute calls (so he will be able to say he's been robbed). He may swear at himself and throw his racket (so he can say it was apparent all along he wasn't in top form). His energies go not into winning but into producing an explanation, an excuse, a justification for losing.
C. Terry Warner
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
Maimonides
It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.
Peter Kreeft
For in our hope we are saved.
Augustine of Hippo
By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
Jonathan Edwards
He who falls, falls by his own will; and he who stands, stands by God's will.
Augustine of Hippo
If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?
Jonathan Edwards
Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under dominion of sin, than to confirm holiness on that which before had nothing of the contrary.
Jonathan Edwards
We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only the knowledge that we have lived without illusion, not excluding the illusion that something will save us.
William H. Gass
I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide...
Emil M. Cioran
If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.
Thomas Aquinas
If you want to be saved look the face of your Christ.
Thomas Aquinas
There is such a thing as a small and cramped eternity. You may see it in many modern religions
G.K. Chesterton
If there are any ifs to salvation then no one is saved by grace. Everyone saves himself who can meet the requirements
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Man is saved if he opens himself to God and to others, even if he is not clearly aware that he is doing so. This is valid for Christians and non-Christians alike -- for all people. . . . We can no longer speak properly of a profane world. A qualitative and intensive approach replaces a quantitative and extensive one.
Gustavo Gutiérrez
It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves...To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save.
Simone Weil
I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.
Emil M. Cioran
Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn,If you don't set your mind on honest aims and pursuits,On waking, you'll be tortured by envy or lust.Why so quick to remove a speck from your eye, whenIf it's your mind, you put off the cure till next year?Who's started has half finished: dare to be wise: begin!
Horace
There are some lessons you can never find in a classroom, hence you need to learn from every person and every situation that you encounter.
Gift Gugu Mona
We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
A diamond will never tell you how valuable it is; if you don't already know, you are not worthy of it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest gift you can open is your heart to someone in need.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Tomorrow belongs to those who learn today.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Courage treats the weak better than fear treats the strong.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The mind does not need four walls to make you its prisoner.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Envy is admiration laced with resentment.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The heart’s will is greater than the hand’s strength.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you try to hide a star behind a dark veil, it will still shine through it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To be a good leader, win minds; to be a great leader, win heart’s; and to be an extraordinary leader, win souls.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change by using it to their advantage.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The prettiest flower still had to struggle to surface.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Calm yourself and you calm your storm.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Alone a candle can only light a room, but in thousands they can even light a city.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The ordinary think inside of the box, the extraordinary think outside of the box, but genius thinks inside, outside, below and above the box.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I have the soul of a white man, the soul of a black man, the soul of an Asian man; the soul of every man.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You don’t have to pay the sun to rise, the moon to shine, and the stars to glow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A book is a small library you can fit into your pocket.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Work keeps us occupied. Faith keeps us fortified. Hope keeps us gratified. Love keeps us satisfied.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wealth is a small blessing, health is a great asset, happiness is an extraordinary treasure, and life is a remarkable reward.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot lead an enemy to Heaven, but you can lead a friend even to Hell.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who conquers others is great, one who conquers the world is mighty, but one who conquers himself is divine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in the darkest hour that a star reveals its brightest light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Life kept throwing me storms, but I kept finding rainbows.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in the stormiest skies that eagles find their true calling.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Sages shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't wound someone's eye trying to remove the twig from it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If a ship is strong, the ocean's tides do not trouble it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What you conquer in your youth is your trophy in adulthood.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A storm is never quiet because it is always calling out to the rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Storms come to teach trees and plants how to dance in the wind.
Matshona Dhliwayo