A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David ThoreauMan has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiTo free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Immanuel KantThere is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.
Hermann HesseWisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Herbert HooverThe point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand RussellNow, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
Matthew McConaugheyNature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
Napoleon HillMen are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard ShawThere is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel JohnsonConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous HuxleyYesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
Hunter S. ThompsonEven death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
BuddhaReligion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl MarxThe important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert EinsteinThere is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Joseph AddisonThe higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao TzuHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
EpictetusNothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye WestThen suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.
Ayrton SennaI 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 BaconWe are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLife is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine HepburnWhoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘
Anne FrankI believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
Stephen HawkingDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SocratesAll men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise PascalIf you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.
Napoleon HillReligion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.
Edmund HillaryEverything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
Haruki MurakamiThere is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
Walt DisneyWhen I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.
Clint EastwoodThere’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.
Matthew McConaugheyDivide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheShe believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul SartreEvery fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTraining is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark TwainIf you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFor the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
Brian EnoIf I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob DylanAll through my writing life, I’ve had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
Paul AusterWe’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsFear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellI prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEvery philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Bertrand RussellA man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePlato was a bore.
Friedrich NietzscheIt does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TolkienBetter a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William ShakespeareThe worst men often give the best advice.
Francis BaconIt seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWords may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin FranklinQuestion with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas JeffersonAll the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George EliotWe are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.
C. S. LewisOne must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche