If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van GoghLife is wasted on the living.
Douglas AdamsEvery man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David ThoreauEvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor RooseveltI don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.
Ray BradburyBeauty 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 WildeAs long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.
Kendrick LamarIt is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl SaganAlthough 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 VinciIf life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
Wayne DyerEvery parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur SchopenhauerWhat if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?
Woody AllenRisk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
Warren BuffettWill minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
Stephen HawkingConvictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich NietzscheMy father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘
Joe BidenNature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques RousseauFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George OrwellI draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
Albert CamusThe only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Immanuel KantSo vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander PopeIf anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
Isaac NewtonChaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
BuddhaWe cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William ShakespeareIf 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 MaslowThe writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerEternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann HesseLettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.
Will RogersThere is no wealth but life.
John RuskinThere is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Napoleon BonaparteTo me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
Jerry SeinfeldIf you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.
Stephen HawkingTo do nothing is also a good remedy.
HippocratesNo art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John RuskinNo; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand RussellI can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.
Kevin HartFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. LewisIf a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
Albert SchweitzerMan was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.
Mark TwainO God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William ShakespeareLife and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao TzuBeing is the great explainer.
Henry David ThoreauThere is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EpicurusI’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.
Brian EnoNothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George EliotIf I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Alexander the GreatRather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David ThoreauHe who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
BuddhaIf a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis BaconTo be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
Christopher HitchensThe great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘
Billy GrahamMeans we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Arthur SchopenhauerO wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Marcus Tullius CiceroExperience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin DisraeliThere is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise PascalThe earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
Thomas Jefferson