Philosophy
Quotes - One must wait until the evening
“The
trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
“No
man was ever wise by chance”
―
Seneca
“Enlightenment
is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability
to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred
is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of
resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude!
'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
―
Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
“Nature
is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
―
Isaac Newton
“I
cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep
my respect.”
―
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
“If
you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
―
Slavoj Žižek
“I
am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver
is diseased. However, I don't know beans about my disease, and I am not sure
what is bothering me. I don't treat it and never have, though I respect
medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, let's say
sufficiently so to respect medicine. (I am educated enough not to be
superstitious, but I am.) No, I refuse to treat it out of spite. You probably
will not understand that. Well, but I understand it. Of course I can't explain
to you just whom I am annoying in this case by my spite. I am perfectly well
aware that I cannot "get even" with the doctors by not consulting
them. I know better than anyone that I thereby injure only myself and no one
else. But still, if I don't treat it, its is out of spite. My liver is bad,
well then-- let it get even worse!”
―
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a
Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“Life
is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
― F.
Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“I
assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and
knows how to turn to its advantage”
―
Fredrich Nietzsche
“I
do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
―
Baruch Spinoza
“He
who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”
―
Epicurus
“It
is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has
decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
―
Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
“One
must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
―
Sophocles
“Generally
speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only
ridiculous.”
―
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
“Keep
me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh
and the greatness which does not bow before children.”
―
Kahlil Gibran, Mirrors of the Soul
“One's
life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means
of love, friendship, and compassion”
―
Simone de Beauvoir
“To
those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation,
sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain
unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the
wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them
the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that
one endures.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
“Always
forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and
doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”
―
Wil Zeus, Sun Beyond the Clouds
“No
man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the
dawning of your knowledge.
The
teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not
of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If
he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather
leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”
―
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
“I
never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible
to be beyond my reach.”
―
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Who
is John Galt?”
―
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Life—the
way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and
worse”
―
Joseph Brodsky
“I
suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing
has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no
senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions.
What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that
nothing at all is certain.”
―
Rene Descartes
