The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Brian TracyIt is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘
Aldous HuxleyIf you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalNature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques RousseauShe believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul SartreNine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. MenckenTo do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Napoleon BonaparteFirst and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George OrwellAnd yet it moves.
Galileo GalileiTruths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David ThoreauI look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin FranklinAll things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest HemingwayWhen you give, it comes back to you.
Mr. TIt is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin FranklinIn everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Friedrich NietzscheI always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.
Mr. TIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EpictetusHow can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
PlatoWhat if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?
Woody AllenKnowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWorthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
SocratesA man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
Oscar WildeI have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.
Steven WrightWhat then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAll theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise PascalThe first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
VoltaireI’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.
Anthony HopkinsReligion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl MarxHabit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise PascalThe unnatural, that too is natural.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheExperience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan PoeThe cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.
Christopher HitchensAmerica is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
Alice WalkerIt is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
DiogenesI have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.
Neil ArmstrongAtheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Blaise PascalMy philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
Dolly PartonIt is natural to die as to be born.
Francis BaconA man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
Hermann HesseIs man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?
Friedrich NietzscheOne must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich NietzscheMan is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous HuxleyPlato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
AristotleNon-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Mahatma GandhiPalestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
Mahatma GandhiMan is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise PascalI remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand RussellEverything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund BurkeIn my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
Stephen HawkingAll intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.
Paul AusterHe who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.
Pope FrancisThere is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Gilbert K. ChestertonObserve constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus AureliusHe who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
Buddha