Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch SpinozaTruth is a pathless land.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiFalsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques RousseauNothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGetting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel JohnsonThere is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mahatma GandhiThe first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl MarxThat’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.
Jordan PetersonTo eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul SartreGood is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamPlato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac NewtonThe world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel JohnsonWe 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 GandhiMan needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand RussellTime is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas AdamsIf you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William ShakespeareReality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.
Joe BidenDon’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark TwainI still think like a Marxist in many ways.
Christopher HitchensFor one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
AristotleThis life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William ShakespeareHe who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.
Galileo GalileiThe sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao TzuThe proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack LondonTo appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
VoltaireHe not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob DylanIt is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
Virginia WoolfMy thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Jean-Paul SartreThe supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Blaise PascalLife is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice WalkerLife would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
Stephen HawkingI will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI am a part of everything that I have read.
Theodore RooseveltNobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.
Jerry SeinfeldAll of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsWhatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus AureliusLife is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie ChaplinIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EpictetusTo be is to do.
Immanuel KantPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo GalileiThe truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann HesseScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
Bertrand RussellAll our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Khalil GibranThe Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Henry AdamsThe one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar WildeI have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalA first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz KafkaWithout work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert CamusMan is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul SartreI want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
Lady GagaNo man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas CarlyleI were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William ShakespeareWorthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
SocratesMan is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Carl JungThe well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde