Philosophical Quotes
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"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"The best things in life make you sweaty."
"If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that also makes it the most valuable time you have, as you alone stand to reap the profits from spending it wisely."
"It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]"
"The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people."
"I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become."
"What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...."
"Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?"
"Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming."
"This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."
"In every journey comes a moment... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are... and who you want to be."
"Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be."
"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law."
"Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins."
"How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do."
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation."
"There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table."
"The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour."
"A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it."
"Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free."
"Listen."Jennifer reverted, "I didn't mean anything by all of that before. I understand what you were trying to do and ..."She struggled for the right words. "Sweetie, like love, people don't live inside of life, life lives inside of you. Open yourself up to it and there's no stopping your heart."
"The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all"
"We are the sum total of the decisions we have made."
"It is common to represent a title, but inspiring to represent a purpose."
"Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change"
"Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers."
"Time is the Mind of Space."
"I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?"
"In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works."
"Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance"
"Ambition soars and also slithers"
"Wonderment shared is doubled.Love shared is infinite."
"[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places."
"... we [humans] are an organic life form that became too sentient of our own existence. When we reached the moment we began to questionise our origin and our demise, that was the moment we should have stop evolving."
"there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"
"A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches"
"Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously"
"It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs."
"The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness."
"We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices..."
"But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?"
"Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs."
"Intelligence is being intelligent enough to know you're not so intelligent as you intelligently once thought."
"She was starting to think that it might be fun to be in control of the universe."
"...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
"Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully"
"There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby."
"It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears."
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