To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
VoltaireOnly on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry AdamsBeauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard ShawThere is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Napoleon HillIf we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George EliotI feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz KafkaMen occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston ChurchillDon’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.
Franz KafkaWe cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William ShakespeareI happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.
Jordan PetersonWisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
PlatoI want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Stephen HawkingIt is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Hosea BallouAll things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest HemingwayIt seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George EliotNo obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis BaconThinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
Eckhart TolleThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph AddisonA life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Bertrand RussellStylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.
Lana Del ReyAll generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark TwainI 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 RussellWe’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsI do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo GalileiTo me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce LeeI 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 SenecaAny man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich NietzscheAt any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert CamusOur care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMeans we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
EpictetusThe higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao TzuThere are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Stephen KingTrees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
John MuirNothing 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 NewtonNo book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.
Paul AusterWhen one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich NietzscheThere cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich NietzscheJudgments, 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 NietzscheNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
SocratesIn a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
Franz KafkaThere is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William ShakespeareIt is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
VoltaireBlessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch SpinozaSay not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘
Khalil GibranEvery 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 EmersonOur task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert EinsteinHaving nothing, nothing can he lose.
William ShakespeareAbsence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl SaganTyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz KafkaHe who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao TzuThe difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas CarlyleThere is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
Oscar WildeIt is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich NietzscheOnce spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich NietzscheFor any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
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