Philosophy
Quotes - There are two kinds of people in this world
“Problems
that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions
asked in the wrong way.”
―
Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“The
glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
―
William Blake
“Only
that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but
a morning star.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“The
only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every
oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil,
Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.”
―
Malcolm X
“Look
back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can
foresee the future too.”
―
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“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
“The
first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying
This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real
founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many
horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the
stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of
listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits
of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
―
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
“I
consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to
assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to
solve our problems ourselves.”
―
Carl Sagan
“Do
you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof
of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't
tolerate my existence.”
―
Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
“There
are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of
people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”
―
Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
“Civil
government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in
reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those
who have some property against those who have none at all.”
―
Adam Smith
“I'm
not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I
love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice.
I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than
you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one
thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.”
―
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
“A
bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving
nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
―
Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life
Made Out of Poetry
“When
you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on
the right path to understanding all kinds of things.”
―
Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery
“Words
do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little
different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and
seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to
another.”
―
Siddhartha Gautama
“This
place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn,
and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”
―
Rumi
“Living
well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great
pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and
that every gift is exactly that, a gift. ”
―
Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“Fas
est ab hoste doceri.
One
should learn even from one's enemies.”
―
Ovid, Metamorphoses
“Learned
we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our
own.”
―
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
“I
am, therefore I'll think.”
―
Ayn Rand
“If
a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
―
G.K. Chesterton
