It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan PoeWho shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Alexander PopeThe sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander HamiltonI had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis BaconEurope was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret ThatcherThe well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar WildeLet’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. LewisThere are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich NietzscheNon-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma GandhiMany people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand RussellRules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Franklin D. RooseveltI’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.
Brian EnoThe frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard ShawWhen a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich NietzscheThe word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl JungI have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan PoeMy thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Jean-Paul SartreWe do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhile discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.
Jocko WillinkTruth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
William JamesAll human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund BurkeA perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard ShawModeration is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Benjamin DisraeliIn the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich NietzscheAll variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘
Isaac NewtonThe universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
Kurt VonnegutThe good is the beautiful.
PlatoThe world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinHe that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinInterdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma GandhiThink occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert SchweitzerNever in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
EpictetusThere is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
Taylor SwiftThe essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George OrwellIn art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
Frank OceanThere 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 NietzscheThe first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘
Martin Luther King, Jr.The human heart is the same the world over.
Billy GrahamWe all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.
Anthony HopkinsThere is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert CamusI sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar WildeMan’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise PascalAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William JamesI want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.
Joel OsteenEvery man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin LutherYou must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma GandhiThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da VinciWhile physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen HawkingFalsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund BurkeGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
Noam ChomskyIf co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
Mahatma GandhiAnd yet it moves.
Galileo GalileiYou may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.
Jordan PetersonLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawWhat really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
Friedrich NietzscheTo be more childlike, you don’t have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
Wayne DyerIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeModern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
Nikola Tesla