Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAll human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund BurkeThings in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.
Joyce MeyerTo depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Virginia WoolfEveryone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
Kurt VonnegutThe world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!
Friedrich NietzscheThe Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
Lao TzuThe eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Blaise PascalNon-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma GandhiHere we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt VonnegutInfinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.
Isaac NewtonAll men are equal before fish.
Herbert HooverKnowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl JungFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William JamesAll genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
George Bernard ShawNothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich NietzscheI define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob DylanBuddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Alan WattsWhat was God doing before the divine creation?
Stephen HawkingMetaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel KantDo not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
ConfuciusMy philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
Dolly PartonTruth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar WildeLet us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
VoltaireOnly 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 GibranSleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur SchopenhauerI am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham LincolnThe longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinNothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George EliotGlance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich NietzscheTime stays, we go.
H. L. MenckenCrime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOnce spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich NietzscheTo assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert CamusThe first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Huey NewtonI still think like a Marxist in many ways.
Christopher HitchensOne who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
John RuskinNo one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
PlatoThose who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Lao TzuA human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
Carl JungNothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
Isaac NewtonYou are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
Thich Nhat HanhThe man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert EinsteinMusic is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van BeethovenLife is warfare.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaGood men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.
Leonardo da VinciNever in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
EpictetusIf I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina JolieIf some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
ConfuciusOne is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.
Jean-Paul SartreI am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
DiogenesIf you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.
Stephen HawkingI believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
Stephen HawkingIt’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.
Bill GatesWords are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Mark TwainMan’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas CarlyleHe who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.
Pope FrancisThe eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Virginia WoolfOur object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato