Philosophy
Quotes - True love is like ghosts
“You were born a child of light’s wonderful
secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
―
Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
“That's
not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.”
―
Judy Blume, Forever...
“The
piano-keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your
mind”
―
Maria Cristina Mena, The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena
“For
the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness
for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations
of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only
dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a
second time.”
―
Elie Wiesel, Night
“Be
wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
―
Dale Carnegie
“True
love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
―
François de La Rochefoucauld
“What
we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is
fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience,
as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to
confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and
words are "coins" for real things.”
―
Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“It
is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the
exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the
perspective.”
―
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
“What
a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.”
―
Alice Bag, Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk
Story
“Criticism
of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the
picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his
pictures are crooked.”
―
Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
“No
matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group.
Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club,
association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of
it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the
groups they identify with and belong to.”
―
George Carlin, Brain Droppings
“To
exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating
oneself endlessly.”
―
Henri Bergson
“It
is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
―
Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Confessions
“There
is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old
man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
―
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
“A
painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on
to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is
just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of
light, but put them all together and you've got magic.”
―
Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
“I
have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human
actions, but to understand them.”
―
Baruch Spinoza
“Inevitably
it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or
opposes an authority or established convention': a rebel. ...And if enough
people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of
course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ... GREATNESS.”
―
Nicholas Tharcher, Rebels & Devils; A Tribute to Christopher S. Hyatt
“The
role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final
key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe
created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time
before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have
finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time
for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator
because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began
at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused
or created by anyone or anything. … So when people ask me if a god created the
universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist
before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It’s
like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth. The Earth is a sphere. It
does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”
―
Stephen W. Hawking
