If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George EliotThe aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
AristotleThose who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
Golda MeirNothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas CarlyleThe object of the superior man is truth.
ConfuciusIndignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand RussellWrite injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin FranklinIt’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia WoolfScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
Bertrand RussellWhat if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?
Woody AllenThe well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar WildeWhen one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich NietzscheSome people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.
George CarlinCulture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert CamusEternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody AllenLanguage is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Alice WalkerMen occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston ChurchillIf you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William ShakespeareThe words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao TzuThe usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen HawkingWhere knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin DisraeliWhat constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
Hermann HesseSorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.
Fidel CastroOur care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDifferent men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
AristotleWe occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston ChurchillIn order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
Albert CamusThe way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin FranklinThe frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard ShawBeyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da VinciI have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.
Terry PratchettWe should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
Karl MarxEthics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert SchweitzerWhen the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson MandelaI wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
Henry David ThoreauWill minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur SchopenhauerI happen to believe there is evil in the world.
John KennedyYou are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.
Eckhart TolleMan is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
Billy GrahamMy philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
Dwayne JohnsonConservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin DisraeliAnybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
Bob DylanThere is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.
Friedrich NietzscheThe infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand RussellThe 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 RussellThe pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl JungIn the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen CoveyJudgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich NietzscheWhere there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
SocratesEvery 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 EmersonNothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph AddisonThe great quest of life has always been to discover truth.
Joyce MeyerWe shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Henry David ThoreauO, had I but followed the arts!
William ShakespeareBefore the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Friedrich NietzscheWe must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.
Arthur C. ClarkeWhether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘
Billy GrahamI think the materialist conception of history is valid.
Christopher Hitchens