Philosophy
Quotes - What you are is God's gift to you
“I
know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than
survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For
without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no
happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is
endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult.
You have become adult.”
―
Harlan Ellison, Paingod and Other Delusions
“The
eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
―
Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
“What
you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
―
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
“belief
is the death of intelligence.”
―
Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten
oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
“You
are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
―
Alan Watts
“I
shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one
tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's
the effect or vice versa”
―
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
“You
show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
―
Malcom X
“It
was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope,
and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first
time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the
universe.
To
feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been
happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel
less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution
there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with
howls of execration.”
―
Albert Camus, The Stranger
“Wisest
is she who knows she does not know.”
―
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
“Some
people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
―
Albert Camus
“Happiness
consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
―
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Freedom
in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek
republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
―
Vladimir Lenin
“The
journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”
―
Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“Learning
does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who
have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
―
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“If
you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a
question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget
there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and
tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag.
Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular
songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram
them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they
feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel
they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be
happy, because facts of that sort don't change.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“The
aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their
inward significance.”
―
Aristotle
“It
takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God
people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have
nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without
a central loyalty life is unfinished.”
―
Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
“Know
thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.”
―
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I
don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to
enjoy ourselves.”
―
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Don't
just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think
better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the
training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad
mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized
their contents.”
―
Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and
Effectiveness
