Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPhilosophically 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 EmersonThink occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert SchweitzerFree will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
Charles SpurgeonA radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. ChestertonHaving nothing, nothing can he lose.
William ShakespeareJudgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich NietzscheNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
PlatoLet each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
Nelson MandelaTo live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich NietzscheChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry AdamsBlessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Alexander PopeLife is a series of commas, not periods.
Matthew McConaugheySomewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia WoolfIn a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
Franz KafkaOur life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da VinciDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EpicurusThe strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoleon BonaparteWhat my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
Charles BukowskiMy fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous HuxleyDeath is just life’s next big adventure.
J. K. RowlingI am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert EinsteinPurity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
ChanakyaWhat we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. LewisEvery person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel KantIf you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.
Matthew McConaugheyI sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George OrwellAll religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert EinsteinMan takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
Lao TzuBut although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel KantTo be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
Golda MeirA little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Francis BaconTemperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
AristotleAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander PopeOur object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
PlatoThe greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John RuskinYou’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
Joe BidenIf particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
PlatoAnd thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Marcus AureliusFear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch SpinozaThe finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise PascalI believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
Stephen HawkingI have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen HawkingWe may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
Helen KellerThat deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert EinsteinReligion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
Isaac NewtonLoyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark TwainAh, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert CamusThere’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.
Clint EastwoodLove is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao TzuHistory should be written as philosophy.
VoltaireMan is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIdealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous HuxleyThe false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEvil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean-Paul SartreIt is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl SaganWhy do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca