Philosopher Quotes
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"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
"And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world."
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it."
"We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer."
"To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it."
"A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them."
"One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light."
"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?"
"Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order."
"If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed."
"The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones."
"My ship came in,then it sank!"
"Że też w tym kraju każdy kelner jest filozofem i każdy filozof kelnerem."
"Success is not an activity but a process."
"Watching TV at my own time. Its beneficiary, but watching TV at its own time . Its time wasting."
"Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance"
"Ambition soars and also slithers"
"Biggest mistake that people make is. That they forget that there is always next time. For any event, any situation and any circumstances."
"I will try it until i get it right. I will try it until i am no longer trying but doing it."
"Closed eyes cannot see the light"
"I didnt give up, because i had nothing, i was no body. But for the fact i was no body and i had nothing. It made me work harder to have something and to be someone. I worked harder more than anyone who had anything. It matters how you view or see things.same thing might not look the same . It depend which angle you are looking them from."
"A person with too many secrets has no happiness but burden. He/She cant find joy or peace, but those secrets enslave him or her. It doesn't matter how many secrets you keep but at the end truth always comes out. Why then burden yourself with secrets."
"There is no one who is happier than the person who is able to control his or her life. Who does what he /she thinks its right. Who pleases himself before everyone. Who doesn't suffer from what people will say syndrome. When you have time . Find a way to please yourself. Then you will be happiest person alive."
"Closed eyes cannot see light"
"To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth."
"May your eyes be the eyes of truthAnd guided from deception"
"Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember."
"Need doesn't care about being sensible."
"Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence."
"A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus."
"To lovers there.Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship."
"Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do."
"If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity ."
"I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy."
"Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong."
"When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate , bad behavior or living their bad lives through you."
"Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved."
"O Heavenly Children, do not forget that God is here, there and everywhere. The birds are his eyes and the air is his ears. And as you sleep, your heart and soul rest naked before him. He can drink from the rivers of your thoughts, and even feel the wetness of your tears."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and creeds. But their message is one and the same, don't you see? He only wishes to unite all His children under one family tree."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell."
"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
"As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission."
"Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in."
"Three things have a limited threshold:Time, pain, and death.While truth, love, and knowledge –Are boundless."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."
"Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby."
"If you want to make people angry. Be Happy. It's sad that people cant stand when others are happy inlife. It really says a lot about them."
"Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man of action pursuing practical goals of personal happiness and wealth or the philosophic man who lives in a world of theoretical and metaphysical ideas? We ascribe the value quotient to our lives by making decisions that we score as either valid or invalid based upon our personal ethics and how we think and behave."
"For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person."
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