Philosophical Quotes

Always recycle wasted time

~ Benny Bellamacina

When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil.

~ Charles Dickens

The trouble with life is that we lead it forwards and understand it backwards.

~ N. Lombardi Jr.

The mind is a vast place and its hungers far sharper than the body's

~ Edward W. Robertson

Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond.

~ K.m. Tepe

It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it.

~ Sean S. Kamali

Hate is bait for the devil, love is the gate to god

~ Benny Bellamacina

There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.

~ K.m. Douglas

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

~ J.a. Redmerski

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

~ Kami Garcia

Do you know how a pearl comes to be?Oysters make them, from a bit of sand.Aiyah. From a bit of sand. He rolled the pearl between his fingers. All pearls begin as something unpleasant that the oysters cannot expel from themselves, even though they may want to. So they embrace these things that will not leave them, shaping them and smoothing away the sharp edges, until over time, they make of these unwanted things great treasures.

~ C.l. Wilson

The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

~ Terry Pratchett

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

~ Mark Twain

The best way to move forward is to stop

~ Benny Bellamacina

We are all only men, defined by our choices.

~ I.e. Castellano

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.

~ Maija Haavisto

A Pause tends the existence of any definition to its end.

~ Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.

~ William Shakespeare

We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it. Master Kai

~ Eleni Papanou

(Speaking about ponies engaging in a game of running around and chasing a ball with imaginary riders)Along with everything else about it, it seemed to be a parable for life. Going forwards and backwards and round in circles, striving ever forward only to have to run like crazy backwards to get the ball again, realizing that your enemy is after the same goal and you're actually helping him toward it and getting roughed up and possibly killed while you're at it but still feeling the comradeship of being in the game all together.

~ Susan Trott

In Unity we can be enslaved, and in Unity we can also come together as individuals. Old Woman

~ Eleni Papanou

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

~ Paulo Coelho

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

~ John Green

You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it. ~ Amunhotep El Bey

~ Amunhotep El Bey

Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

It all begins with goodness in the heart.

~ Bjorn Street

While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in.silently and greyly, with its head bowed and its face covered.

~ John Steinbeck

Over and over again I have said that there is no way out of the present impasse. If we were wide awake we would be instantly struck by the horrors which surround us ... We would drop our tools, quit our jobs, deny our obligations, pay no taxes, observe no laws, and so on. Could the man or woman who is thoroughly awakened possibly do the crazy things which are now expected of him or her every moment of the day?

~ Henry Miller

I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

You know what turns dirt into diamonds?Pressure. Weight. Heat...The geological equivalent of torture.

~ Laura Argiri

Some people were destined to have a significant other.Some people were destined for greatness.But few others were destined to be soldiers, to be warriors, to be alone.That is me.It is not a path that i have chosen, but it is a path that i must walk.Some may think this is sad, but i have come to peace with it.Because i am and always will be a soldier, a warrior...Alone.

~ Chris Söderström

Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.

~ Casper Silk

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned

~ Alfred Tennyson

Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.

~ Ivan Turgenev

Maybe they were born of karma, their own or their parents', Zack thought; maybe the universe had a purpose for them, and they were what they were because the world needed them to be that way.

~ Jackie Trippier Holt

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.

~ Newton Lee

Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.

~ Wil Zeus

Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.

~ Newton Lee

Things aren't different. Things are things.

~ William Gibson