Philosophy
Quotes - Freedom is the only worthy goal in life
“The
words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”
―
Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
“The
real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if
it does what problem this really solves.”
―
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Knowledge
is power is time is money.”
―
Robert Thier, Storm and Silence
“In
politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to
administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the
handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
―
Plato
“I
think I am, therefore, I am... I think.”
―
George Carlin
“If
you reveal your secrets to the wind,
you
should not blame the wind for
revealing
them to the trees.”
―
Kahlil Gibran, The Wanderer
“Freedom
is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie
beyond our control.”
―
Epictetus
“He
was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to
accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to
drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he
liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or
Evil unless he thought them into being.”
―
Jean-Paul Sartre
“I
have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are
constrained to do by their fear of the law.”
―
Aristotle
“The
first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual
again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as
much independent ground for himself as possible”
―
William S. Burroughs
“The
inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
―
Edith Södergran
“Because
there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another
which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends
by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the
second is good, the third is useless.”
―
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“Even
a soul submerged in sleep
is
hard at work and helps
make
something of the world.”
―
Heraclitus, Fragments
“Our
ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”
―
Lisa Lutz, The Spellmans Strike Again
“Everything
takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
―
David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
“It
is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God
that such men lived.”
―
George S. Patton Jr.
“Physics
isn't the most important thing. Love is.”
―
Richard P. Feynman
“Perhaps
not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion
contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those
fragments and piece them together.”
―
Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
“To
love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last
test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...Love is
a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself,
to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim
upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.”
―
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“The
beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those
atoms are put together.”
―
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“Seize
the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the
world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”
―
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“When
someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the
seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they
want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the
others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people
should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
