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I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;And in small compass the dark waters cram.

~ Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake Gods Passion Philosophy Sea

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect, because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Philosophy Political Philosophy

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

~ Epictetus

Epictetus Attitude Control Philosophy

...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

~ Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Change Crisis Life Philosophy

There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson Luck Philosophy Religion

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Debate Faith Philosophy Science Scientific Method

Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.

~ Albert Camus

Albert Camus Existentialism Philosophy

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

~ Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger Philosophy Reason Science

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said.It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.'Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.

~ David Gemmell

David Gemmell Anger Emotion Life Philosophy Sun

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

~ Bernard Beckett

Bernard Beckett Philosophy Science Fiction

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live

~ Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Consciousness Life Living Philosophy

We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.

~ Colin Meloy

Colin Meloy Chaos Mystery Philosophy

One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.

~ Fredrik Backman

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Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.

~ Herman Melville

Herman Melville Fiction Historical Philosophy

The best things in life are crazy.

~ Emme Rollins

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The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard God Philosophy

Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it.

~ Debasish Mridha

Debasish Mridha Appreciate Craving Criticize Debasish Deserve Forgive Friend Life Mridha Philosophy

What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?

~ C.r. Strahan

C.r. Strahan Apocalypse Humor Inspiration Philosophy

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

~ Alan W. Watts

Alan W. Watts Life Philosophy

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

~ Democritus

Democritus Philosophy Science

..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

~ Yann Martel

Yann Martel Animals Mankind Philosophy Truth

To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.

~ Seneca

Seneca Philosophy

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

~ Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell Philosophy Politics

Muhabbat apni marzi se khulay pinjray main totay ki tarha bethnay ki salaahiyat hai. Muhabbat is ghulami ka toq hai jo insaan khud apnay ekhtyar se galay main dalta hai

~ Bano Qudsia

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Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

~ Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin Art Philosophy Truth

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

~ Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan Evolution Philosophy Science

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

~ Amit Ray

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To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.

~ Criss Jami

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It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes Peace Philosophy War

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

~ Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek Philosophy Slavoj Zizek

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

~ Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Motivational_For_The_Unmotivated Philosophy

O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all, but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening.

~ Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Knowledge Literature Philosophy Understanding

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

~ Karl Marx

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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche Philosophy Schopenhauer As Educator

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

~ Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Idealism Philosophy

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

~ Stephen King

Stephen King Philosophy

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

~ Vladimir Lenin

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A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

~ Jostein Gaarder

Jostein Gaarder Life Philosophy

Do you think you wear a mask?’‘I’m wearing one right now.’ Valentino smiled softly. ‘We both are.’‘It’s a sad thought.’‘Yes,’ he said. ‘But sometimes I wonder about the alternative. Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?

~ Catherine Doyle

Catherine Doyle Life Masks Philosophy Truth
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