Philosophy
Quotes - Contentment is natural wealth
“The
most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately
with faulty arguments.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Contentment
is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
―
Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates
“Last
night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t
think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s
anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their
genitals.”
―
Jess C Scott, Tongue-Tied
“The
more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must
be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you,
for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”
―
Spinoza
“Until
we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many
things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had
them.”
―
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
“My
desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you
wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the
point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth
stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
―
Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
“A
cult is a religion with no political power.”
―
Tom Wolfe
“Before
I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that
doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
―
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Governments,
if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No
government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the
aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the
interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty,
oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
-
Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
―
Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
“In
the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of
the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and
in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and
trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous
state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down
the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the
Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on
the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust
and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our
buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is
mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
“If
anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he
would never begin.”
―
Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
“We
are the hollow men
We
are the stuffed men
Leaning
together
Headpiece
filled with straw. Alas!
Our
dried voices, when
We
whisper together
Are
quiet and meaningless
As
wind in dry grass
Or
rats' feet over broken glass
In
our dry cellar
Shape
without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed
force, gesture without motion;
-
The Hollow Men”
―
T.S. Eliot, Poems: 1909-1925
“Stop
feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”
―
Stephen Fry
“The
moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be
more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
―
Alain de Botton
“There
is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at
all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is
all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no
problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your
mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist
life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you
imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone
else, too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor.
Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free!”
―
Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
