Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Blaise PascalUpon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
Abraham LincolnNon-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Mahatma GandhiTo the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. RowlingAll men are equal before fish.
Herbert HooverThings are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan WattsThe way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin FranklinNature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise PascalThe marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
Hermann HesseI have wondered about time all my life.
Stephen HawkingTruth 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 JamesVirtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
PlatoHe who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
BuddhaWe have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William JamesNo man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. MenckenWhen we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark TwainThe first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl MarxOut of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel KantIf life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
Wayne DyerThe perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David ThoreauWhen I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.
Lana Del ReyThe absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert CamusCharacter is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAny man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMaybe stories are just data with a soul.
Brene BrownTime stays, we go.
H. L. MenckenI tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Kurt VonnegutThe heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Helen KellerThere is nothing good or evil save in the will.
EpictetusThe lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich NietzscheThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David ThoreauThe absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
Albert CamusAbsence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl SaganIf we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
Stephen HawkingIf the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. LewisIt is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich NietzscheHappiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George WashingtonIf one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
ChanakyaThe first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Huey NewtonMost people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand RussellSomewhere, 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 WoolfI do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo GalileiA first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz KafkaBeauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis BaconYou are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.
Eckhart TolleThere is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mahatma GandhiBy the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIt is not living that matters, but living rightly.
SocratesI am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
DiogenesI have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam ChomskyThe book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.
Jordan PetersonWhen we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.
Christopher HitchensThe world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William JamesIt is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThings in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.
Joyce MeyerI really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.
Jim CarreyThe way up and the way down are one and the same.
HeraclitusThere is nothing so stable as change.
Bob DylanLiterature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller