Philosophy Quotes
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
"May you live every day of your life."
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"
"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
"If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave."
"The past has no power over the present moment."
"A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."
"You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face"
"Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something."
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy"
"We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking."
"A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window."
"Like all magnificent things, it's very simple."
"If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!"
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
"You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do."
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?"This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence"really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them"
"You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him.""So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep."
"Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?"
"It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me."
"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
"The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace."
"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"
"I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle."
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
"Time is a game played beautifully by children."
"Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world."
"Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
"No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."
"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."
"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."
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