Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
Paulo CoelhoFaith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David ThoreauPhilosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
Stephen HawkingWhether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
AristotleThe object of the superior man is truth.
ConfuciusMan is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePeople look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.
Paul AusterWords are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.
Billie EilishAlthough nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da VinciThe ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.
Richard P. FeynmanThe world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Albert CamusThe desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis BaconWe’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
Lady GagaAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.
Taylor SwiftThe fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.
Will RogersIf history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard ShawThe work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John RuskinMy brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
Margaret AtwoodAll sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich NietzscheIf you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson MandelaA person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.
Pope FrancisIt is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
Terry PratchettYou can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
Abraham MaslowI’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 AtwoodFreedom without limits is just a word.
Terry PratchettThe intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George OrwellMan was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Jean-Jacques RousseauO God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William ShakespeareWhen you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.
Stephen CoveyAll the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob DylanWords are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Mark TwainThe image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Elvis PresleyThe 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 RussellMy daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘
Kevin HartI like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest HemingwayIt is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel JohnsonThere is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaSuch as we are made of, such we be.
William ShakespeareThe great quest of life has always been to discover truth.
Joyce MeyerWe are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWomen have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
Madeleine AlbrightA true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.
Ludwig van BeethovenThere is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Henry David ThoreauMan approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous HuxleyI have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.
Steven WrightThere is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand RussellI am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham LincolnWhatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch SpinozaThe good is the beautiful.
PlatoIt is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo MachiavelliWhat’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
Marilyn MonroeNot always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander PopeThe only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry FordMan 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 TzuWe are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘
Carl SaganThe truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da VinciAll of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams