Philosophy Quotes - Page 64

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

Dejan Stojanovic

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

Dejan Stojanovic

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

Dejan Stojanovic

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

Dejan Stojanovic

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

Dejan Stojanovic

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

Dejan Stojanovic

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Dejan Stojanovic

We need knew knights, but without swords.

Dejan Stojanovic

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

Dejan Stojanovic

All those big words produce disgust today.

Dejan Stojanovic

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

Dejan Stojanovic

Your head is a lit chamber.

Dejan Stojanovic

Either you will be you or you will not be at all.

Dejan Stojanovic

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

Dejan Stojanovic

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

Dejan Stojanovic

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

Dejan Stojanovic

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

Dejan Stojanovic

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

Dejan Stojanovic

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

Dejan Stojanovic

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

Dejan Stojanovic

The game itself is bigger than the winning.

Dejan Stojanovic

If you are good, they say you are weak.

Dejan Stojanovic

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Dejan Stojanovic

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

Dejan Stojanovic

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

Dejan Stojanovic

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

Dejan Stojanovic

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

Dejan Stojanovic

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Dejan Stojanovic

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

Dejan Stojanovic

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.

Dejan Stojanovic

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

Dejan Stojanovic

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

Dejan Stojanovic

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

Dejan Stojanovic

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.

Dejan Stojanovic

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

Dejan Stojanovic

They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.

Dejan Stojanovic

There are no winners in real games.

Dejan Stojanovic

Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.

Dejan Stojanovic

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

Dejan Stojanovic

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

Dejan Stojanovic

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

Dejan Stojanovic

Love is almost never simple.

Dejan Stojanovic

If you have a big heart, you will live a large life.

If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.

People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm.

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.

The main danger is that of supposing that the thing to do is get a mind on the scale of Thomas (Aquinas)’s into your head, a task of compression that will be achieved only at your head’s peril. The only safe thing to do is to find a way of getting your mind into his, wherein yours has room to expand and grow, and explore the worlds his contains.

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

Aberjhani

We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must train ourselves into thinking in a certain way.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.

You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

Richard J. Foster

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

Michel Foucault

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, it is its enormity, its boundlessness, its oceanic limitlessness. The earth has no end here; the world has no end. Man is no created for such measureless. For him a comfortable, palpable, serviceable measure is the measure of his village, his field, street, house. At sea, the size of the ship's deck will be such a measure. Man is created for the kind of space that he can traverse at one try, with a single effort.

Ryszard Kapuściński

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.

Jeanette Winterson

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