We might as well die as to go on living like this.
Charlie ChaplinWhen it’s your time, it is your time.
Bruno MarsI have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo GalileiThe value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
Marcus AureliusA little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Francis BaconAn ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mahatma GandhiIt seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBasically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.
DJ KhaledI don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.
Kevin HartWe want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
Paulo CoelhoTolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOnly when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Khalil GibranA new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Robert KiyosakiIf you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalBelief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalThe man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
PlatoLove, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert HubbardIt has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma GandhiWe 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 JohnsonI hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas JeffersonWe humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
Thich Nhat HanhAge doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
David BowieThere are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Aldous HuxleyIt is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston ChurchillUnbeing dead isn’t being alive.
E. E. CummingsPhilosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘
Ralph Waldo EmersonMediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin DisraeliInformation is not knowledge.
Albert EinsteinTake a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John MuirNothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.
Friedrich NietzscheWhat then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
VoltaireIf anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
Karl MarxThinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Alice WalkerAll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise PascalThere is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel JohnsonThe important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Joseph AddisonThe bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David ThoreauIn America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar WildeIf pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Samuel JohnsonScience is nothing but perception.
PlatoBears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
Karl LagerfeldAt the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.
BonoAs I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham LincolnSuch as we are made of, such we be.
William ShakespeareThere is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert EinsteinNature has always had more force than education.
VoltaireNothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George EliotFable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
Abraham MaslowThe infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand RussellIt is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinOut of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel KantIn nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Alice WalkerThe foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
BuddhaI can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen KellerMen occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill