Philosophical Quotes - Page 7

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

Virginia Woolf

It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears.

Lynn C. Tolson

They can send death at once, but life is slower...

Ursula K Le Guin

You have to set somebody free for them to return

Candice Night

Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.

Gabriel García Márquez

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Victor Hugo

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

Jules Verne

It is better to burn than to disappear.

Albert Camus

Where men can't live gods fare no better.

Cormac McCarthy

Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances over the solitary waster of her life, seeking some white sail in the distant mists of the horizon. She had no idea by what wind it would reach her, toward what shore it would bear her, or what kind of craft it would be – tiny boat or towering vessel, laden with heartbreaks or filled to the gunwhales with rapture. But every morning when she awoke she hoped that today would be the day; she listened for every sound, gave sudden starts, was surprised when nothing happened; and then, sadder with each succeeding sunset, she longed for tomorrow.

Gustave Flaubert

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

Madeleine L'Engle

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact.

Christopher Isherwood

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Jeffrey Archer

Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten.

Jacob Grimm

They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings.It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on

Terry Pratchett

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

Jeff Lindsay

Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously

Confucius

Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not

Jules Verne

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Aristotle

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Arthur Conan Doyle

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices...

Woody Allen

But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?

David Foster Wallace

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Euripides

I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

Richard Feynman

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Albert Camus

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Voltaire

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.

Bertrand Russell

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

Roald Dahl

The Prayer of the Middle-Aged ManAmid the doctors in the Temple at twelve, between mother & host at Cana implored too soon, in the middle of disciples, the midst of the mob, between High-Priest and Procurator, among the occupiers,between the malefactors, and 'stetit in medio, et dixit, pax vobis' and 'ascensit ad mediam Personarum et caelorum,' dear my Lord,mercy a sinner nailed dead-centre too, pray not to late,-for also Ezra stood between the seven & the six, restoring the new Law.

John Berryman

Don't think about the things that made you to think and think and think...

self

Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.

Victor Hugo

Life is science.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you think like others, how can you be sure you're thinking at all?

Daniel Delgado F

Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe God wanted us to invent our own savior when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

Ideas are like wine. They get better when they have time to mature.

R.M. ArceJaeger

[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

Azar Nafisi

And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse and disappear.

Patricia Highsmith

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

Adyashanti

Hope is the privilege of the weak.

Gasmaskman

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

John Steinbeck

No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

William Deresiewicz

The meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all.

Christopher Charles Harris

In the vast spectrum of space-time’s coeternal continuum, I am but a glint of bundled energy held together by the translucent fiber of creative consciousness. The misty dew of private thoughts that inhabit my streaky underworld briefly forms a splintery part of the glittering arena of the cosmos. In the ether-like dawn of my awakening, my minuscule arch appears intravenously injected amid the dark matter of the nightscape. Reminiscent of the morning’s dew, my comet’s tailed reflection disintegrates and dissipates without a lasting trace in the dawn of a new age. I shall never wholly cease to exist, since my filtrate potentiality – a trace of my essence – remains suspended forevermore in celestial wonderment.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Helen stared at him "How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?""You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic." He smiled at her

Josephine Angelini

Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place.

Duop Chak Wuol

Love never dies... when death is not the end.

Brian Lovestar

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

Vikram Seth

Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair signifies potent sexual energy and strength hold but also signifies virility of the animalistic tendencies and royal power . . . A woman who rejects narcissism of complete vaginal hair removal gives a signature of strength, virtuously liberated, body acceptance, and more womanhood.

John Shelton Jones

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

Andreas Eschbach

If you miss your bus, just start walking.

Shan McGinley

If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter.

Carroll Bryant

Often times, "shame" is the word that best describes reality.

Carroll Bryant

We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That’s us.

Cornel West

Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes

Benny Bellamacina

Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are

rassool jibraeel snyman

Try and avoid people who use the word "cant" regularly associate rather with those who say "can" and do

rassool jibraeel snyman

We might feel we have achieved a lot. . just take a pause and look back. . We will see only darkness....

Mahesh shekhar

No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself

rassool jibraeel snyman

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