Philosophical Quotes

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing

~ Julia Heywood

Who am I? I am the spine that the mountains hang upon! I am the tears that the rivers cry! I am the lungs that breathe the wind! I am the wolf that kills the stag, the hawk that kills the mouse, the spider that kills the fly! I am the stag, the mouse and the fly that are eaten! I am the snake of the world devouring its tail! I am everything untamed and untameable!

~ Patrick Ness

While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.

~ Richard Kearney

You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment...Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.

~ Susan Wiggs

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.

~ Jim Butcher

You can't see the world from somebody else's point of view and not be changed.

~ Lena Coakley

Guys, close your eyes.Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine she is dating a guy like you. Did you smile? No?Then change.

~ Chocolate Socrates

Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come.

~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Do a bit research before you plan.

~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Try & try until you cannot succeed.

~ Kishan P Rao

I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets

~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Robbers*sometimes your words rob you of your thoughtsand leave you destituteand sadwill they weep for you i wonder_____________________________rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015The Poetic Assassin

~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Who knows why our kids do what they do? All we can do is just love them. - Fenella

~ Cindy Vine

One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are

~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Try and avoid people who use the word cant regularly associate rather with those who say can and do

~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

We might feel we have achieved a lot. . just take a pause and look back. . We will see only darkness....

~ Mahesh Shekhar

We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That’s us.

~ Cornel West

Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes

~ Benny Bellamacina

If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter.

~ Carroll Bryant

Often times, shame is the word that best describes reality.

~ Carroll Bryant

If you miss your bus, just start walking.

~ Shan Mcginley

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

~ Andreas Eschbach

Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair signifies potent sexual energy and strength hold but also signifies virility of the animalistic tendencies and royal power . . . A woman who rejects narcissism of complete vaginal hair removal gives a signature of strength, virtuously liberated, body acceptance, and more womanhood.

~ John Shelton Jones

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

~ Vikram Seth

Love never dies... when death is not the end.

~ Brian Lovestar

Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

He that will not reason is a bigot, he that cannot reason is a fool, he that dares not reason is a slave.

~ William Drummond

Helen stared at him How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic. He smiled at her

~ Josephine Angelini

In the vast spectrum of space-time’s coeternal continuum, I am but a glint of bundled energy held together by the translucent fiber of creative consciousness. The misty dew of private thoughts that inhabit my streaky underworld briefly forms a splintery part of the glittering arena of the cosmos. In the ether-like dawn of my awakening, my minuscule arch appears intravenously injected amid the dark matter of the nightscape. Reminiscent of the morning’s dew, my comet’s tailed reflection disintegrates and dissipates without a lasting trace in the dawn of a new age. I shall never wholly cease to exist, since my filtrate potentiality – a trace of my essence – remains suspended forevermore in celestial wonderment.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all.

~ Christopher Charles Harris

No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

~ William Deresiewicz

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

~ John Steinbeck

Hope is the privilege of the weak.

~ Gasmaskman

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

~ Adyashanti

And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse and disappear.

~ Patricia Highsmith

[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

~ Azar Nafisi

Ideas are like wine. They get better when they have time to mature.

~ R.m. Arcejaeger