Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich NietzscheThe universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.
Stephen HawkingIn everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Friedrich NietzscheTo know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
SocratesEvery man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques RousseauFor having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin FranklinAs soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
Margaret AtwoodA strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.
Edgar Allan PoeNon-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mahatma GandhiI have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles DickensCommon Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da VinciWhere there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.
Joyce MeyerDo not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
Richard P. FeynmanYou just have to have a simple faith.
Jimmy CarterOur object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
PlatoNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EpicurusThe strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise PascalAll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise PascalModeration is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Benjamin DisraeliYou cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
Pope FrancisAll this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David ThoreauIt is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
PlatoWhen he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
VoltaireThe supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Elbert HubbardEven a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Joseph AddisonReverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
Albert SchweitzerI submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas CarlyleThere is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.
Noam ChomskyEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank ZappaTruth is a pathless land.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIt is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan PoeIt’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.
Terry PratchettOnly when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Khalil GibranWhat do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie ChaplinI believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
Fidel CastroEverything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Marcus AureliusWe do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma GandhiThe Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
Billy GrahamThose who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
DiogenesHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel KantTo free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Arthur SchopenhauerMy philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
Dolly PartonThere’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
Golda MeirA sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
AristotleIn the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinTruly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William ShakespeareNo policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
Abraham LincolnGrounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
Carl JungOne of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous HuxleyTo terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher HitchensThe fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark TwainSin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Baruch SpinozaIt’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.
Mark ZuckerbergCompassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert SchweitzerIn the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich NietzscheHatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo MachiavelliA man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi