One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise PascalI have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert SchweitzerAt any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert CamusBaldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston ChurchillYour 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 HuxleyThe first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl MarxPhilosophy begins in wonder.
PlatoIt’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
Ray BradburyI know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.
Ernest HemingwayDictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel JohnsonThere’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.
George LucasA jug fills drop by drop.
BuddhaI believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.
Conor McGregorTo me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce LeeAs far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert EinsteinWhen it’s your time, it is your time.
Bruno MarsObama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.
Noam ChomskyIt is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel JohnsonI think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David ThoreauMan is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
AristotleTo me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
Jerry SeinfeldThere are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles DickensThere is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert EinsteinThe 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 TeslaThere is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert CamusBelief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George EliotBeauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
Oscar WildeSee that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Richard P. FeynmanWriters are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
John SteinbeckHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David ThoreauThere is no birth of consciousness without pain.
Carl JungMan is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
HeraclitusMan is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert CamusIn fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
HypatiaSin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Baruch SpinozaHow could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao TzuMan the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar WildeIf I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis BaconWho is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinI’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
David BowieTo the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. RowlingWhat is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinAnd yet it moves.
Galileo GalileiWe call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert CamusNever trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. RowlingThe difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
Charles BukowskiThe Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George OrwellIt is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
Terry PratchettOne of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz KafkaAn error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma GandhiThe unnatural, that too is natural.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAll our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Khalil GibranSin is geographical.
Bertrand RussellThe 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 PascalThose who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Lao TzuThe first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.
Huey NewtonReligion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
Isaac Newton