Famous Quotes

There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.

~ Albert Camus

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

~ Albert Camus

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.His own happiness is man’s only moral purpose, but only his own virtue can achieve it…Life is the reward of virtue- and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy- a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your won destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but using your mind’s fullest power.Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seek nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing bu rational actions.The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trade…A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

~ Ayn Rand

Socrates should have written comics.

~ Mark Waid

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.

~ Socrates

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

~ David Hume

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

~ Victor Hugo

Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

~ Noah Levine

See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases, and generalises. Truth, for him, becomes a class-name for all sorts of definite working-values in experience. For the rationalist it remains a pure abstraction, to the bare name of which we must defer. When the pragmatist undertakes to show in detail just why we must defer, the rationalist is unable to recognise the concretes from which his own abstraction is taken. He accuses us of denying truth; whereas we have only sought to trace exactly why people follow it and always ought to follow it. Your typical ultra-abstractions fairly shudders at concreteness: other things equal, he positively prefers the pale and spectral. If the two universes were offered, he would always choose the skinny outline rather than the rich thicket of reality. It is so much purer, clearer, nobler.

~ William James

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

~ Yann Martel

Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.

~ 37 Signals

When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice.

~ Jostein Gaarder

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

~ Aaron Copland

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.

~ Carroll Bryant

I grew up once, I decided never to do it again

~ Benny Bellamacina

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way

~ ;Cristiane Serruya

The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker.

~ Graham Parke

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

~ George Orwell

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces nice people, not heroes.

~ Peter Kreeft

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way, and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

~ Mark Rowlands

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

~ Albert Camus

Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!

~ Mehek Bassi

Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.

~ Doug Dillon

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

~ Aristotle

The toxic behaviors were there before you decided to enter into relationships with them. The signs were there. You may have chosen to look the other way, but the signs were there.—Psychotherapist from Type 1 Sociopath

~ P.a. Speers

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

~ Bertrand Russell

All statistics have outliers.

~ Nenia Campbell

The universe never complains.When you're wrong or right,She always loves and cares,She always gives and shares. When you get lost she becomes the light,Helps you to find what is right. But she never forgetsTo show you the light.

~ Debasish Mridha

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

~ Marsilio Ficino

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

~ Victor Hugo

Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.

~ Amit Kalantri

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

~ Bertrand Russell

The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.

~ Charles Slagle

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.

~ Charles Alexander Eastman

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

~ Epicurus

There's no greater show on earth than observing human nature

~ Benny Bellamacina

They grew, they did not talk about growing.

~ Dejan Stojanovic