Philosophy Quotes

...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people’s destiny is charted...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.

~ Zack Love

But then, as I looked in the mirror, I became fixated on some hairs near my carotid artery that were still there. I pushed the blade deep against my neck to shave them off, and then blood squirted out.

~ Zack Love

A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.

~ Zack Love

The lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the whole thing for many reasons.

~ Zack Love

Most of our brains are out, but it is good what they did for themselves by leaving this country. They are Cameroon’s reserve for development, for the day that this country shall be free. Your late father was an intelligent man. He was even more than that. He was a sage. He once said to me that the intelligent Bamilekés are those who have sought a better future for themselves and for their families in British Cameroons. He was right. They have not been brainwashed as much as their francophone brothers have. If he were alive today, I am sure he would have judged that the intelligent Cameroonians are those who have sought refuge out of Cameroon.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above all, I had to see her again and find out what, if anything, would happen between her and me.

~ Zack Love

But I did feel the vertigo of death’s invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my wavering soul. I came to realize, just in time, that suicide was far too easy – and obscenely cowardly – after someone I knew, not even half my age, had been through so much worse and still marched gloriously on.

~ Zack Love

She was somehow this damaged creature I had fortuitously encountered along my path and now cared about as a result. Granted, I didn't cause her harm, as I did with Icarus, but I somehow began to feel responsible for her welfare.

~ Zack Love

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Sons, any man who is considered a success in life owes a lot to society. We have been very blessed, my dear sons. We have to show our appreciation to our society for making that possible. A time will come when you will meet other Kamerunians who share the same vision for this land. I am advising you to make them partners in our common goals when that time comes. We shouldn’t shy away from playing a formidable role in financing that political force that shall emerge. We must use our influence to ensure that it succeeds.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The people are like an audience watching a drama. They have characters whose sides they chose even before the start of the show, but they know little or nothing about the people behind the stage―the manipulators.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...We find our greatest peace when we embrace something that gives meaning to our lives. Often, it is love for somebody or something we can give up our lives for, or somebody or something that we are sure will never betray us. That love could be for a partner, for our offspring, for a country or for a belief...

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The Romans construed Jesus Chris’s crucifixion as a defeat, but what do we have today? Christianity triumphed. Jesus Christ never betrayed himself, he never betrayed his mission and he never corrupted the ideas that God wants us to live by. The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humaneness. There is no reason to try to kill it because it will triumph ultimately.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Religion without reason is merely an illusion of religion – it is a mockery of religion, like it has become today.

~ Abhijit Naskar

When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Every fool has an idea how to change the world. Wise people think about how to improve the world around them.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Having a rather pessimistic outlook on life makes for the best philosophical discussions, distress is the only real reason to question something, comfort often leads to the inability to change.

~ Moryah Demott

When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.

~ Bertrand Russell

Success is not a finite resource; share it, wish it on others, and celebrate others

~ Savania China

The black, the white, the brown, the red, the yellow, the hetero, the homo, the trans, the poor, the rich, the literate, the illiterate, the weak, the strong – all are my sisters and brothers. My life is their life. And till the last breath in my body, I shall be serving you all with all the power in my veins. And beyond death, my ideas shall be serving you for eternity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I am the thread of unification that goes through humans of all religions, cultures and ideologies while reinforcing their innate sense of one humanity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I work to make human beings out of human bodies. I work to make conscience out of mindlessness. I work to make Gods out of obedient worshippers.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity replete with courage, conscience and compassion.

~ Abhijit Naskar

O my brave Almighty Human, with the ever-effulgent flow of courage, conscience and compassion, turn yourself into a vivacious humanizer, and start walking with bold footsteps while eliminating racism, terminating misogyny, destroying homophobia and all other primitiveness that have turned humanity into the most inhuman species on earth.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Telling the truth is less demanding than telling a lie.

~ Eraldo Banovac

The best advice will come from the person who has no personal interest in the matter.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

It is not to compare Ali and Allah. It is to discuss between tyrant Yazeed and veracity of Hussainiat.

~ Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh