It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeThe big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.
Brian EnoSocialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston ChurchillFaith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
Wayne DyerFans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
Taylor SwiftNo policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
Abraham LincolnIt is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Joseph AddisonWhat is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar WildeThere are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIgnorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAt 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.
BonoBut blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander PopeIn order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
Albert CamusI know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.
Ernest HemingwayOnce you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI 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 BaconThe foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
BuddhaHow can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIt’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.
Joyce MeyerDo not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
Richard P. FeynmanOnly those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
Douglas MacArthurA sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
AristotleIf you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund BurkeBut I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van GoghThe world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel JohnsonBeing is the great explainer.
Henry David ThoreauTruth is what works.
William JamesThe theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
Bertrand RussellScience is nothing but perception.
PlatoThere have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.
Billy GrahamThe Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.
Dan QuayleThose whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar WildeI believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.
Neil ArmstrongAs far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert EinsteinThe difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Arthur SchopenhauerTo teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand RussellYour true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous HuxleyThere are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich NietzscheMeaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Hermann HesseTo act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
James BaldwinHonor thy error as a hidden intention.
Brian EnoWho can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
Jean-Paul SartreSometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David ByrneWe run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Blaise PascalI don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.
Thomas CarlyleIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VoltaireTo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VoltaireThe progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
Narendra ModiIt is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. MenckenI am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.
Jimmy CarterBeauty is a short-lived tyranny.
SocratesMan is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Henry AdamsThe unnatural, that too is natural.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Terry PratchettWhen the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson MandelaYou have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich NietzscheWe’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.
Brene BrownI think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
Maya AngelouNothing cannot exist forever.
Stephen HawkingNothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle