Philosophy Quotes - Ironic Habit of Human Beings
“If
anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses
about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults,
else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
―
Epictetus
“Perhaps
home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
―
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
“The
smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights
cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
―
Ayn Rand
“The
day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Do
not go gentle into that good night,
Old
age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage,
rage against the dying of the light.”
―
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
“If
you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
―
Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words
“It
is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their
way.”
―
Rollo May
“Time
is a game played beautifully by children.”
―
Heraclitus, Fragments
“You
didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So?
He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to
sleep.”
―
Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess
“The
philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point,
however, is to change it.
[These
words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
―
Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
“Those
who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them;
for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
―
Aristotle
“I
started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the
image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no
matter how long or hard the struggle.”
―
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“We
have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain
error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal
truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming
'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection
that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer
however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads
only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Often
father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange
meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright
as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the
daughter from the mother’s fate.”
―
Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
“Expect
everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
―
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
“I
shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words
are the source of misunderstandings.”
―
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Man
is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life
unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery
because I want to be a human being.”
―
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“One
is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
―
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“The
cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe
to know itself.”
―
Carl Sagan
“The
legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to
others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no
god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
―
Thomas Jefferson
