The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston ChurchillBe willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William JamesI am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody AllenI haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.
Lando NorrisThe thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
Conor McGregorO God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William ShakespeareToo much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas SowellI kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.
Jerry SeinfeldStates are not moral agents.
Noam ChomskyJust as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
BuddhaI would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
Albert CamusExistence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Friedrich NietzscheBe smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Bertrand RussellWill and intellect are one and the same thing.
Baruch SpinozaNothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch SpinozaMan is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul SartreI define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob DylanIf any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Bertrand RussellError is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
H. L. MenckenEvery time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
Bob MarleyI argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily DickinsonTruth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise PascalYou say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich NietzscheMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William ShakespeareWealth is well known to be a great comforter.
PlatoMost gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.
Terry PratchettThe observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand RussellTime stays, we go.
H. L. MenckenI think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David ThoreauIf I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
Franz KafkaThe arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund BurkeThe foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
BuddhaIt was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
DiogenesAs you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerKnowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann HesseA man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad AliWhat the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.
Lady GagaLife without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil GibranEffective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Jim RohnBuddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund BurkeEverything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Albert SchweitzerWhat 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 HesseIt is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. ChestertonDeath to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
Bob DylanThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac AsimovWe are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Isaac NewtonRegarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich NietzscheThe one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
AristotleYour 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 HuxleyEducation consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark TwainScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
HippocratesNothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich NietzscheThe only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert EinsteinAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer