The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
William Makepeace ThackerayThere is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai LamaMan is a universe within himself.
Bob MarleyAt the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
Francis BaconRisk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
Warren BuffettIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas JeffersonI love being in a courtroom.
Kamala HarrisNothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David ThoreauAs far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl JungPhilosophy 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 GalileiSilence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas CarlyleBut if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
AristotleIt has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma GandhiI’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody AllenIf we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl SaganRevenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel JohnsonCertainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis BaconNothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Lao TzuI think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand RussellCan a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. LewisIt is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
Terry PratchettIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VoltaireNon-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Mahatma GandhiMy fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey NewtonA man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. MaxwellA little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Francis BaconPerhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich NietzscheI don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘
Ruth Bader GinsburgThere is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma GandhiNothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Robert FrostGod is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen KingThe softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Lao TzuAll things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
Lao TzuAs flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William ShakespeareWe are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Helen KellerNo one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve JobsFaith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen KellerBoth in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellWell, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Bob DylanIn everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Friedrich NietzscheI give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinCharacter cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen KellerThe man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert EinsteinI define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob DylanWisdom begins in wonder.
SocratesI like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.
Bertrand RussellNot to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
PlatoI don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
Bill GatesBut man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest HemingwayThe act of dying is one of the acts of life.
Marcus AureliusThose who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
VoltaireYour true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous HuxleyEvery person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur SchopenhauerEven philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘
Immanuel KantWhatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch SpinozaMan takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
Lao TzuIf there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens