The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. LewisMan the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
John RuskinTruth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich NietzscheTime stays, we go.
H. L. MenckenIf my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil GibranNothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas CarlyleIf I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
Franz KafkaEverything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul SartreTo abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert CamusThere is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EpicurusThe scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola TeslaMany people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand RussellO wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Napoleon BonaparteMorality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma GandhiPeace is liberty in tranquillity.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis BaconWhen he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
VoltaireMy philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
Dwayne JohnsonIn a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
Franz KafkaNothing can be beautiful which is not true.
John RuskinThe first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.
Huey NewtonHave you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
SocratesThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin FranklinNo one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert EinsteinContradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise PascalI want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Stephen HawkingAs far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert EinsteinThe question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWhat is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar WildeHe who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
DiogenesI am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
DiogenesI don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
Bill GatesThe art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
DiogenesWe are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘
Carl SaganThinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJust as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
BuddhaMan is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul SartreThings are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. EisenhowerRisk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
Warren BuffettIllusion is the first of all pleasures.
VoltaireSome scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank ZappaI had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis BaconMan is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous HuxleyI don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.
Jane GoodallEvery man is his own hell.
H. L. MenckenGod is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John LennonNothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel KantThe only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar WildeHistory should be written as philosophy.
VoltaireEvery fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Franz KafkaHeaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
Lao TzuMen occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston ChurchillThere is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens