It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Edmund BurkeWhen befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin FranklinA friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Khalil GibranIt pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret ThatcherWhen we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George EliotThe marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen KellerThe intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William JamesInfinites, 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 NewtonIt is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich NietzscheI think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.
Alice MunroWhen he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
VoltaireWe run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Blaise PascalI’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.
Anthony HopkinsGo up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.
Muhammad AliThe life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Henry David ThoreauI really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.
Jim CarreyInformation is not knowledge.
Albert EinsteinLife would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
Stephen HawkingA stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Franz KafkaWhatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich NietzscheTo reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaReality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert EinsteinTruth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David ThoreauTo the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘
Christopher HitchensIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VoltaireLife and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao TzuTo 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 LeeWhen you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
ConfuciusProperty is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.
J. K. RowlingAge is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Mark TwainThere’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.
Dwayne JohnsonToo often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. KennedyThe basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. MenckenFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. LewisOne of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.
Frank ZappaWhoever 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 NietzscheIgnorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMany a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Khalil GibranThe rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark TwainWhat do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie ChaplinAll this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David ThoreauIt is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich NietzscheIt’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
Kobe BryantMen create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
AristotleSeemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.
Billy GrahamThe end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
SocratesPeople are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
EpictetusEverything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
Paul AusterTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand RussellModern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John RuskinThere are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘
Marilyn MonroeTruth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Albert CamusHuman life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel JohnsonMetaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant