The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
SocratesNothing 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 NewtonAll theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel JohnsonWisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
PlatoThere 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 WildeI grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas CarlyleIt may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.
Arthur C. ClarkeWhen one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich NietzscheRightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMetaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel KantA new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Bertrand RussellThe essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
EpictetusThought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Virginia WoolfTo see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
ConfuciusLife every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William ShakespeareTo me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
Jerry SeinfeldWhen you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
Bob DylanHence 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.
AristotleWhen you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich NietzscheThere is no birth of consciousness without pain.
Carl JungImperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn MonroePhilosophy begins in wonder.
PlatoWe are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin DisraeliI do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
DiogenesOur existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
Anthony HopkinsThe real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. LewisA person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Desmond TutuThere is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.
John MuirLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawAlthough we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista’s tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.
Fidel CastroThe brain is wider than the sky.
Emily DickinsonMan’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 CarlyleMan is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
Benjamin DisraeliBy all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
SocratesDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EpicurusWe shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Henry David ThoreauGirls are soft and pretty.
Adam SandlerTyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz KafkaOnly on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry AdamsWisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich NietzscheYou’re beautiful, like a May fly.
Ernest HemingwayEvil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean-Paul SartreIf I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
Franz KafkaPlato was a bore.
Friedrich NietzscheWhy are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
Stephen HawkingTo believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
VoltaireFor me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl SaganGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence NightingaleAn error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma GandhiI don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.
Vivienne WestwoodMan is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul SartreThose who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Lao TzuWrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark TwainA great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAdmiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph AddisonI do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
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