To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBeauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John RuskinA women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.
Coco ChanelGod is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich NietzscheHe that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William ShakespeareOf all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
AristotleIt is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
Abraham LincolnPerhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
Oscar WildeBlushing is the color of virtue.
DiogenesNothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch SpinozaTo every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac NewtonAll our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel KantThe 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 LondonDon’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
Tennessee WilliamsOnly a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert CamusA 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 JungTo 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 LeeA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeThe difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas CarlyleWe 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 GandhiIf it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Henry David ThoreauAll this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David ThoreauTrees 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 MuirAs I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius CiceroKnow then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander PopeBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund BurkeIf you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William ShakespeareHow can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMan lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mahatma GandhiThere is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.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 SenecaChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry AdamsIt is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas JeffersonBefore God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
Albert EinsteinI don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne FrankLife and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao TzuI do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Bertrand RussellThings are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan WattsIf you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.
Anthony HopkinsCan a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. LewisEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank ZappaIn the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI am a part of everything that I have read.
Theodore RooseveltMan 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 JungIf a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis BaconThere is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
Gilbert K. ChestertonDogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand RussellA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous HuxleyBut although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel KantThe lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich NietzscheNothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch SpinozaHence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
AristotleThe great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘
Billy GrahamThere are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHe who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich NietzscheWe are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel JohnsonShe believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul SartreWe require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John RuskinThe way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander PopeHe that does good to another does good also to himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca