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  Philosophy Quotes - A bird is safe in its nest “Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo   “A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.” ― Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird   “If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower. ” ― Graham Greene   “All men by natu...

  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 ev...

  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 e...

  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 ...

  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...

  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 nee...