By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis BaconI believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
Fidel CastroMan is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert EinsteinYour 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 HuxleyWe do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
ConfuciusIn a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
Franz KafkaThere is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich NietzscheWhoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert EinsteinWhat we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
Abraham MaslowAny religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
VoltaireSmall amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis BaconWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil GibranAll human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund BurkeEach thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
Marcus AureliusThe first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
VoltaireThe words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao TzuEvil is whatever distracts.
Franz KafkaThe main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma GandhiGod gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz KafkaOne may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van GoghPerhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.
Christopher HitchensGod is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John LennonAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe 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 AddisonOnly on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry AdamsFalse words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
SocratesWould that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Khalil GibranIf one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise PascalIt is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William JamesAll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise PascalNo iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Thomas CarlyleNor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil GibranThere is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William JamesI have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David ThoreauA first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz KafkaWithout feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
ConfuciusHe that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William ShakespeareThe scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola TeslaNothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas CarlyleRather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David ThoreauThe frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard ShawAll theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGood men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.
Leonardo da VinciWhen the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Virginia WoolfI’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.
Anthony HopkinsWhat is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar WildeSpiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!
Pope FrancisSocialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston ChurchillTruths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David ThoreauExperience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel KantI’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.
Margaret AtwoodChaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry AdamsHegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard ShawMan and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci