Quotes in the category philosophical.
The best things in life make you sweaty.
Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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.
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.
Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.
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.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,they are vexations to the spirit.
Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.
We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
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.", The Guardian, 5 June 2005]
The only thing standing between you and your dreams is ... reluctance.
Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.
Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.
A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
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.
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.His own happiness is man’s only moral purpose, but only his own virtue can achieve it…Life is the reward of virtue- and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy- a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your won destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but using your mind’s fullest power.Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seek nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing bu rational actions.The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trade…A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.
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.
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.
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