Philosophical Quotes - Page 4

At the railroad station he noted that he still had thirty minutes. He quickly recalled that in a cafe on the Calle Brazil (a few dozen feet from Yrigoyen's house) there was an enormous cat which allowed itself to be caressed as if it were a disdainful divinity. He entered the cafe. There was the cat, asleep. He ordered a cup of coffee, slowly stirred the sugar, sipped it (this pleasure had been denied him in the clinic), and thought, as he smoothed the cat's black coat, that this contact was an illusion and that the two beings, man and cat, were as good as separated by a glass, for man lives in time, in succession, while the magical animal lives in the present, in the eternity of the instant.

Jorge Luis Borges

For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

Vilém Flusser

Don't believe in coincidence. There is nothing unplanned in this universe ~ Levon Peter Poe

Levon Poe

...something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.

Veronica Roth

When I look at my life and at the secret color which it has, I feel as if tears were trembling in my heart. I am just as much the lips that I have kissed as the nights spent in the 'House before the World,' just as much the child brought up in poverty as this frenzied ambition and thirst for life which sometimes carry me away.

Albert Camus

We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

...if the actor gave his performance without knowing that he was in a play, then his tears would be real tears and his life a real life. And whenever I think of this pain and joy that rise up in me, I am carried away by the knowledge that the game I am playing is the most serious and exciting there is.

Albert Camus

We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

Ethan Hawke

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on... The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Oscar Wilde

What life is this? Living in a world of hatred and lies, breathing the same air the dead breathed once, knowing we will wake up one day and find ourselves gone from time and space, and yet we still breathe the air without trembling from the thought.

Nour Zikra

Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.

André Gide

Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life,’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who were important.

Sara Sheridan

Darkness is the natural state of the universe. Light, fleeting, comforting as it may be, may stretch to the very edges of all we know. Yet once it is gone, the darkness always remains.

Mark T. Barnes

What is your original face, before your mother and father were born?

Zen koan

Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.

Frank Herbert

Moments like this occurred more and more frequently, and I think that was the biggest difference between us. That we could look at the same stars in the same sky, but not have the same questions. Not want the same answers.

Stephanie Oakes

Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu

How do I know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.

Barry Lyga

Would that we could choose the last image we see before death closes our eyes forever to this world.

Nick Hirst

If then the power of speech is as great as any that can be named,—if the origin of language is by many philosophers considered nothing short of divine—if by means of words the secrets of the heart are brought to light, pain of soul is relieved, hidden grief is carried off, sympathy conveyed, experience recorded, and wisdom perpetuated,—if by great authors the many are drawn up into unity, national character is fixed, a people speaks, the past and the future, the East and the West are brought into communication with each other,—if such men are, in a word, the spokesmen and the prophets of the human family—it will not answer to make light of Literature or to neglect its study: rather we may be sure that, in proportion as we master it in whatever language, and imbibe its spirit, we shall ourselves become in our own measure the ministers of like benefits to others—be they many or few, be they in the obscurer or the more distinguished walks of life—who are united to us by social ties, and are within the sphere of our personal influence.

John Henry Newman

Sometimes, one needs another pair of eyes to see things clearly.

Aguidon

The only difference between a prayer and a curse is the one who stands to profit.

Paula Wall

Some women barter their bodies like whores with wedding bands. Some use sex like a sword. But some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus.

Paula Wall

You cannot become what you already are.

John McAfee

A well-adjusted person wouldn't talk much. There's not a lot to be said about most of life. Most days, weeks, years, lives, nothing happens... and still we carry on chattering at each other.

James Ferron Anderson

May your eyes be the eyes of truthAnd guided from deception

rassool jibraeel snyman

So the starry sky turns round like a millstone, always bringing some trouble, and men being born or dying.

Petronius Arbiter

Here I was alone, and could take my own time. In other parts of the world one always seems to be in a great hurry, tearing from one spot to the other at a gallop, but out yonder, perhaps because distances are so great, time don't seem to matter; you can jog along, breathing fresh air and enjoying the scenery and your own thoughts about women and home and hunting and booze and money and what may lie over the next hill.

George MacDonald Fraser

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.

George Orwell

Deep down inside we always seek for our departed loved ones

Munia Khan

If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.

Kahlil Gibran

In the real world, in the grand scheme of life, this year is going to count for exactly nothing. These are the friendships that don't last and the choices that don't count. All those things we freak out about now, like who's going to be class president and are we going to win the game this weekend- there's going to be a time when we can't remember caring about them. In exactly three hundred and sixty five days from right now, wearing your letter jacket will make you look like the lamest of losers.

Jen Klein

The gift within every gift is always opportunity.

Steindl Rast David

The mind is a flame. Blow it out, or it will blind you.

Brian Staveley

Of course, the abolition of Hell meant that such thoughts were now the merest fantasy. Isobel was agnostic as to what, if anything, lay in store for us after this life; that there was a world of spirit seemed to her to be a possibility that we should not exclude. Consciousness was an elusive entity about which we knew very little, other than that it came into existence when certain conditions were present- a sufficient mass of brain cells operating in a particular way. But could we really say much more than that about where it was located & whether it could survive in other conditions? The fact that a plant grew in one place did not mean that it could not grow in another. And if something lay behind this consciousness, orchestrated it & and the conditions that produced it, then why should we not call this something God?

Alexander McCall Smith

Very..." She left the word hanging. Very unfinished, thought Isabel. The woman finished her sentence. "Very beautiful." Oh, really! thought Isabel. The verdict from others was much the same. Oh well, thought Isabel. Perhaps I'm not sufficiently used to the language he's using. Music is not an international language, she thought, no matter how frequently that claim is made; some words of the language may be the same, but not all, and one needs to know the rules to understand what is being said. Perhaps I just don't understand the conventions by which Nick Smart is communicating with his audience.

Alexander McCall Smith

It's not always wise to assume that just because the surface of the world appears undisturbed, life is where you left it.

Jan Ellison

I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.

Beth Lewis

Better to be a successful failure, than to fail at success.

Benny Bellamacina

The people who strive for failure are encouraged by those that failed before them. To do the same

Jacques S Cantin

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

Erin Morgenstern

Truly, great is pride and blindness, so that the blood dripping from the scaffold would be called justice. - Epigraph to the 5'th chapter

Sapkowski

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.

Romain Rolland

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

David Bowie

At the heart of all of mankind’s achievements is imagination.

R. L. Matthies

I know that I know nothing

Plato

Yet if all reality is subjective, all certitude is impossible.

Robin Paul Wood

I can’t seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly.

Becky Albertalli

Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

Ursula K Le Guin

How do you keep your emotions so under control, Nicolas? Even when you're doing things that have to bother you?" She glanced up at him to make certain her question hadn't upset him."I don't do anything unless I believe it is necessary. If it's necessary then there's no reason for me to be bothered by it. The universe has a natural order. I do my best to flow with it and not try to control things outside of myself. The truth is, control is a myth. You can't control another person or even an event. You can only control yourself. So that's what I do.

Christine Feehan

How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right. It's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain.

Stephen Fry

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.

Albert Camus

Live the way life does, love the way they does

Prashant Joshi

The way we live, decides the meaning of life.And the way we die, tells how much meaningful we made it.

Shashank Rayal

Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, just a fictitious narrative. Littre says so and he's never wrong.And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just have to close your eyes.It's on the other side of life.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

He had always imagined that some sort of emotional mental equipment was meant to arrive, when he was forty-five, say, or fifty, a kind of kit that would enable him to deal with the impending loss of a parent. If he were only in possession of this equipment, he would be just fine. He would be noble and selfless, wise and philosophical. Perhaps he would even have kids of his own, and would presumably possess the kind of maturity that comes with fatherhood, the understanding of life as a process.

David Nicholls

As we try to envisage what the world will be like for our grandchildren and imagine who will inherit the good and bad we leave behind, we pause to think of those who have shaped our attitudes. We pay homage to those spirits who have expanded our potential for understanding the unique circumstances of our lives and who have given us hope and courage to be strong and live bravely. We will always be fascinated by the thoughts of others, and by the way they have expressed their truths and insights, because they are the real teachers. They have shared with us the truth as they have experienced it.

Alexandra Stoddard

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

William Shakespeare

I think happiness is a bit like a cake. If you have cake every single day of your life you'll get sick of it. If you're happy everyday, you'll get sick of being happy… That's a good saying actually. Happiness is like a cake. Have too much and you'll get sick of it.

Karl Pilkington

I think it's early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you're counting, you'll notice the earlys outnumber the lates.

Jennifer Niven

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