Famous Quotes

The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages , they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

~ Bertrand Russell

€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.

~ Slavoj Žižek

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.

~ Aberjhani

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

~ Jeffrey Steingarten

The actuality of us being cognizant and accepting of the fact we are but a speck of sand in a universe sized desert, whose existence is irrelevant to any facet of universal function is a hard pill to swallow. Knowing the world will go on for another billion years after death and you will have no recollection of anything, just as you have no recollection of the billion years before your birth is a mind-boggling intuition

~ Hewitt E. Moore

My mind is a lock pick always looking for another door to open. I often find those doors by exploring minds of others...

~ Hewitt E. Moore

As for Doing-good,that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried itfairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agreewith my constitution. Probably I should not consciously and deliberatelyforsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands ofme, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a likebut infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preservesit.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he shouldfirst immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis.

~ Tomislav Sunić

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.

~ Daniel Quinn

Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.

~ William K. Mahony

He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves! he cried.

~ Edward Lewis Wallant

The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in the rival sects but also by capping them all with the keystone of nonduality.

~ Paul Brunton

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!

~ Diogenes Laërtius

Perhaps swimming was dancing under the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to swim under upraised logs past schools of sunfish and bluegills, to swim through reed beds past wriggling water snakes and miniature turtles, to swim in small lakes, big lakes, Lake Michigan, to swim in small farm ponds, creeks, rivers, giant rivers where one was swept along easefully by the current, to swim naked alone at night when you were nineteen and so alone you felt like you were choking every waking moment, having left home for reasons more hormonal than rational; reasons having to do with the abstraction of the future and one's questionable place in the world of the future, an absurdity not the less harsh for being so widespread.

~ Jim Harrison

A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.

~ Anne Fadiman

Ethics is a dream.

~ Charles Baxter

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

~ Susan Neiman

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

~ Kedar Joshi

God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.

~ Kedar Joshi

For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true end, which was rest, and peace of mind. Action was to be undertaken only when equilibrium was disturbed.

~ Olaf Stapledon

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

~ Craig M. Mullaney

There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply get done by the social machine, and one can keep one's clear conscience and one's moral indignation unsullied.

~ John Fraser

Wenn man nachts nicht schläft, werden Träume wahr.

~ Selim Özdogan

On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective.

~ Guy Debord

Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse.

~ Guy Debord

Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty

~ R. Kelly

Whenever a soul leaves the body a void is felt across the world..

~ Anonymous

Failure is when you stop trying to do something.So, if you want to succeed.Don't stop trying.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

If you don't look. You can't see.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

It's the little things that make big things happen.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.

~ Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua, lo que ignoramos es un océano.

~ Isaac Newton

Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.

~ Seneca

When you are able to love yourself deeply, you can be kind to others.

~ Debasish Mridha

Let the love of the moon kiss you good night, let the morning sun wake you up with loving light.

~ Debasish Mridha

UNDIVIDEDI am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am forOne peaceful world for all,Where hate has been overcome by love,And everyone is guided only By their conscience.

~ Suzy Kassem

What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges? Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules. And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action?

~ Epictetus

The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself.

~ Erich Fromm

Each sunrise brings a new day filled with new hopes for a new beginning.

~ Debasish Mridha