Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Jean-Paul SartreI don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.
Ray BradburyUncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous HuxleyOf course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
Brian EnoYou have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
Lady GagaMen govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch SpinozaI give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinBy and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George CarlinWithout stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
Lao TzuA man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
Marilyn MonroeNo group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. RooseveltOur necessities never equal our wants.
Benjamin FranklinWhen we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.
Winston ChurchillWe have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.
Jane GoodallOne always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
Jean-Paul SartreIt is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar WildeI exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.
Joe BidenShallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Richard P. FeynmanDifferent men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
AristotleFriendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
VoltaireThe Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinNo matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen KellerAny man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMy fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous HuxleySwearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.
Gordon RamsayI like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.
Pope FrancisConscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H. L. MenckenSurely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham LincolnTruth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
Albert SchweitzerNature is not human hearted.
Lao TzuBlessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Alexander PopeI need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.
Steven WrightIt is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
Dan QuayleI believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.
Neil ArmstrongI suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Douglas MacArthurI have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya AngelouGood writing is like a windowpane.
George OrwellLanguage is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam ChomskyThe first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.
Huey NewtonBe not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch SpinozaNo one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve JobsWords are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Mark TwainRemember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.We might as well die as to go on living like this.
Charlie ChaplinPhilosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
Wayne DyerIn all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Carl JungMaybe stories are just data with a soul.
Brene BrownIf you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.
Napoleon HillNothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIn so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAt best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry AdamsWhen I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.
Mark ZuckerbergIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeThe unexamined life is not worth living.
SocratesThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George EliotChaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry AdamsThe 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 Schwarzenegger