The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar WildeOne of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.
Frank ZappaReligion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan WattsAll religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert EinsteinAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard ShawDuty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin DisraeliLeave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore RooseveltWisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
Thomas SowellKnow thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMen do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor DostoevskyI 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 CarterThe misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
EpicurusBegin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne DyerIf 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 HawkingI don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.
Billie EilishTo know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
SocratesIf you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.
Abraham MaslowThere is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai LamaTo act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
James BaldwinNature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Emily DickinsonUs sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Alice WalkerManners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
Alexander the GreatWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Tennessee WilliamsThe future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich NietzscheReligions get lost as people do.
Franz KafkaHow simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Alice WalkerI ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.
Kanye WestUnless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.
Lady GagaHe who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich NietzscheAll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise PascalPremature certainty is the enemy of the truth.
Nipsey HussleThe reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
Alan WattsWe see the world not as it is, but as we are.
Stephen CoveyIf you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
Brian EnoIn each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWhen I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.
Joel OsteenI answer only to God.
Mr. THabit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise PascalA new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. ChestertonYour philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim RohnIt is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinResponsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.
Noam ChomskyWhen men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel JohnsonOne of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.
John MuirWater is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da VinciI was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.
Kevin GatesWhen we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
ConfuciusIt is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
Mark TwainThe essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
Henry KissingerI do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao TzuI’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
James BaldwinYou say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
Joan of ArcWhat springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Marcus AureliusIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William JamesRegarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinA human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
Carl JungSometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert EinsteinMankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson