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âãThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.ãâ
â Thomas Aquinas
âãEmotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts of this creatures reasoning itself.ãâ
â Martha Nussbaum
âãThe only way to be truly free is to accept your limitations.ãâ
â Slavoj Zizek
âãThe symbol gives rise to thought.ãâ
â Paul Ricoeur
âãThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.ãâ
â Rumi
âãReal knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.ãâ
â Confucius
âãTo be is to be perceived.ãâ
â George Berkeley
âãWhat does not kill us makes us stronger.ãâ
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âãLuck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.ãâ
â Seneca
âãNothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.ãâ
â G.W.F. Hegel
âãAt the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.ãâ
â Plato
âãCogito, ergo sumãâ
â René Descartes
âãOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.ãâ
â Henry David Thoreau
âãKnow thyself.ãâ
â Thales
âãIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.ãâ
â Voltaire
âãI am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.ãâ
â Woody Allen
âãChange your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now without delay.ãâ
â Simone de Beauvoir
âãExperience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.ãâ
â Aldous Huxley
âãWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.ãâ
âãHappiness depends upon ourselves.ãâ
â Aristotle
âãLife has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.ãâ
â Joseph Campbell
âãLiberty, Equality, Fraternity.ãâ
â French National Motto
âãThe great man is he who does not lose his childs heart.ãâ
â Mencius
âãWe are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.ãâ
â Saint Augustine
âãI would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.ãâ
â Socrates
âãTo will oneself free is also to will others free.ãâ
âãTo one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.ãâ
âãDevelopment is about transforming the lives of people, not just the economy.ãâ
â Amartya Sen
âãThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.ãâ
â Marcus Aurelius
âãA wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.ãâ
â David Hume
âãWe are all fools in love.ãâ
â Jane Austen
âãThe beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.ãâ
â Thomas Merton
âãBeauty lies in the eye of the beholder.ãâ
âãThe task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to tolerate insecurity.ãâ
â Erich Fromm
âãThere is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.ãâ
â William Shakespeare
âãTo be human is to be driven by passion.ãâ
â Nietzsche
âãThe good life is a process, not a state of being.ãâ
â Carl Rogers
âãYour children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of lifes longing for itself.ãâ
â Khalil Gibran
âãWe are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.ãâ
â Swami Vivekananda
âãNo mans knowledge here can go beyond his experience.ãâ
â John Locke
âãIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.ãâ
âãThe fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the foolish are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.ãâ
â Bertrand Russell
âãNo one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.ãâ
â Pythagoras
âãThings do not change; we change.ãâ
âãWhoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.ãâ
âãWe lose ourselves in what we read only to return to ourselves, transformed.ãâ
â Judith Butler
âãWhat worries you, masters you.ãâ
âãIn the beginning was the Wordãâ
â John 1:1
âãThe greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.ãâ
â William James
âãWe suffer more in imagination than in reality.ãâ
âãIf you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any momentãâ
âãHe who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.ãâ
âãThe only way to have a friend is to be one.ãâ
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âãWithout music, life would be a mistake.ãâ
âãI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.ãâ
âãThat man is wisest who realizes that his wisdom is worthless.ãâ
âãThe most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.ãâ
â Martin Heidegger
âãNo man is an islandãâ
â John Donne
âãThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.ãâ
â Oscar Wilde
âãWe become full human agents capable of understanding ourselves through rich languages of expression.ãâ
â Charles Taylor
âãWhat matters is not whether a universe or a multiverse exists, but that ethical living remains possible.ãâ
â Derek Parfit
âãWhat doesn't kill us makes us stronger.ãâ
âãThe unexamined life is not worth living.ãâ
âãFlow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.ãâ
â Zhuangzi
âãDo not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.ãâ
â Gautama Buddha
âãI dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither. Then I awoke. Now I wonder: am I a man who dreamed of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being a man?ãâ
â Chuang Tzu
âãThe only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing.ãâ
âãMan is condemned to be free.ãâ
â Jean-Paul Sartre
âãOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.ãâ
âãWhereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.ãâ
â Ludwig Wittgenstein
âãNo man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.ãâ
âãWonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.ãâ
âãAct as if what you do makes a difference. It does.ãâ
âãTalent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.ãâ
â Arthur Schopenhauer
âãThere is nothing permanent except change.ãâ
â Heraclitus
âãTo be great is to be misunderstood.ãâ
âãThe limits of my language mean the limits of my world.ãâ
âãUnderstanding is always more than merely recreating someone elses meaning.ãâ
â Hans-Georg Gadamer
âãThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.ãâ
â Frederick Douglass
âãCommon sense is not so common.ãâ
âãScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.ãâ
â Immanuel Kant
âãPatience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.ãâ
â Jean-Jacques Rousseau
âãTo be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.ãâ
âãHistory repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.ãâ
â Karl Marx
âãFreedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.ãâ
â Epictetus
âãKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.ãâ
â Laozi
âãThe best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.ãâ
âãMusic is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.ãâ
â Leibniz
âãKnowledge itself is power.ãâ
â Francis Bacon
âãThe knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.ãâ
â Avicenna
âãIn the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.ãâ
â Sun Tzu
âãPower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutelyãâ
â Lord Acton
âãThe sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.ãâ
â Hannah Arendt
âãIf you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.ãâ
â John Galsworthy
âãAll sins are attempts to fill voids.ãâ
â Simone Weil
âãIt is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.ãâ
â Diogenes
âãThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.ãâ
â George Santayana
âãWhen the student is ready, the teacher will appear.ãâ
â Unknown
âãThe things that we love tell us what we are.ãâ
âãHe who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.ãâ
â Anne Bronte
âãNo great thing is created suddenly.ãâ
âãAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.ãâ
âãThe life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.ãâ
â Thomas Hobbes
âãPhilosophy is universal and without boundaries.ãâ
â Karl Jaspers
âãBeauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.ãâ
âãPhilosophy is the highest music.ãâ
âãThe highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.ãâ
â Baruch Spinoza
âãLanguage is the house of being.ãâ
âãThe world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religionãâ
â Thomas Paine
âãThe question is not who is going to let me; it is who is going to stop me.ãâ
â Ayn Rand
âãKnowledge is power.ãâ
âãKnowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.ãâ
â Al-Ghazali
âãIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.ãâ
â Jiddu Krishnamurti
âãOne of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.ãâ
â Thomas More
âãAll real living is meeting.ãâ
â Martin Buber
âãNot what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.ãâ
â Epicurus
âãThe only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.ãâ
â John Stuart Mill
âãTo study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.ãâ
â Dogen
âãI think, therefore I am.ãâ
â Rene Descartes
âãThere is nothing outside of the text.ãâ
â Jacques Derrida
âãWhen the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.ãâ
âãDifficulty is what wakes up the genius.ãâ
â Napoleon Bonaparte
âãPeace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence.ãâ
âãAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.ãâ
â Soren Kierkegaard
âãThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.ãâ
âãKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.ãâ
â Lao Tzu
âãThe way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.ãâ
âãCalamity is the test of integrity.ãâ
â Samuel Richardson
âãIt is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.ãâ
âãEveryone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.ãâ
â Nicolo Machiavelli
âãThe greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.ãâ
â Michel de Montaigne
âãThe test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.ãâ
â Dietrich Bonhoeffer
âãDare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.ãâ
âãMan is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.ãâ
âãCompassion is the basis of morality.ãâ
âãThe journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.ãâ
âãJustice is what love looks like in public.ãâ
â Cornel West
âãThe mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.ãâ
â John Milton
âãThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.ãâ
â Blaise Pascal
âãI can only answer the question what am I to do if I can answer the prior question of what story am I part of.ãâ
â Alasdair MacIntyre
âãThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.ãâ
âãHe who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.ãâ
âãDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.ãâ
âãAct that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.ãâ
âãThe absurd does not liberate; it binds.ãâ
â Albert Camus
âãWe do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.ãâ
â John Dewey
âãThe life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oysterãâ
âãAct so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.ãâ
â Hans Jonas
âãThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.ãâ
âãMan is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.ãâ
âãGive me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the worldãâ
â Archimedes
âãDoubt is the origin of wisdom.ãâ
âãPeople demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.ãâ
âãGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.ãâ
â Maimonides
âãOne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.ãâ
âãIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.ãâ
âãNothing is miserable unless you think it so.ãâ
â Boethius
âãThe life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.ãâ
âãOne must imagine Sisyphus happy.ãâ
âãWe are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.ãâ
âãYou can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.ãâ
â Christopher Columbus
âãBecause you are alive, everything is possible.ãâ
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âãArise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.ãâ
âãWe live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.ãâ
â Iris Murdoch
âãThe only thing that is constant is change.ãâ
âãThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.ãâ
â Augustine
âãWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality.ãâ
âãHe who dares not offend cannot be honest.ãâ
âãIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, that will be enough.ãâ
â Meister Eckhart
âãIt is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.ãâ
â Eugene Ionesco
âãThe meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.ãâ
â Pablo Picasso
âãLove is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.ãâ
âãBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight; but there is a beauty for the hearing too.ãâ
â Plotinus
âãThere is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.ãâ
âãDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.ãâ
âãThe amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius and vigor it contained.ãâ
âãTrue ignorance is not the absence of knowledge but the refusal to acquire it.ãâ
â Karl Popper
âãTo have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.ãâ
â G.K. Chesterton
âãThe soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.ãâ
âãLife is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.ãâ
â Gabriel Marcel
âãBetween stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom.ãâ
â Viktor Frankl
âãWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.ãâ
â Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
âãThe soul is healed by being with children.ãâ
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âãThat which does not kill us makes us stronger.ãâ
âãThe soul that is without a fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.ãâ
âãThe world is not what I think, but what I live through.ãâ
â Maurice Merleau-Ponty
âãHell is other people.ãâ
âãIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.ãâ
â Charles Darwin
âãThe philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.ãâ
âãYou are the universe experiencing itself.ãâ
â Alan Watts
âãLiberty for wolves is death to the lambs.ãâ
â Isaiah Berlin
âãThere are no facts, only interpretations.ãâ
âãThe measure of a man is what he does with power.ãâ
âãIf it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing anything of comparable importance, we ought to do it.ãâ
â Peter Singer
âãThe opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all is what we mean by the truth.ãâ
â Charles Sanders Peirce
âãThe world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.ãâ
â Bertrand de Jouvenel
âãHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.ãâ
âãWe are what our thoughts have made us.ãâ
âãTo become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.ãâ
â Montesquieu
âãOne must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.ãâ
âãThe fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap.ãâ
âãThe art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.ãâ
âãTo do two things at once is to do neither.ãâ
â Publilius Syrus
âãA concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason or it can be thrown through the window.ãâ
â Gilles Deleuze
âãNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.ãâ
âãIgnorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to conflict.ãâ
â Ibn Rushd
âãCharacter is destiny.ãâ
âãThe time to relax is when you don't have time for it.ãâ
â Sydney J. Harris
âãEmptiness wrongly grasped is like picking up a poisonous snake by the wrong end.ãâ
â Nagarjuna
âãLife is like a camera. Just focus on whatâs important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things donât work out, just take another shot.ãâ
â Ziad K. Abdelnour
âãWhatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.ãâ
âãLife must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.ãâ
â SÞren Kierkegaard
âãWe live in an age of exhaustion and fatigue because we are always pushing ourselves.ãâ
â Byung-Chul Han
âãThe miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth.ãâ
âãThe courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.ãâ
â Paul Tillich
âãDo not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.ãâ
âãWhenever you are in doubt, it is best to act.ãâ
âãI would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and liveãâ
âãWhere there is power, there is resistance.ãâ
â Michel Foucault
âãThe moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination.ãâ
â bell hooks
âãSilence is the language of God; all else is poor translation.ãâ
âãThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.ãâ
âãWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.ãâ
âãDo not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.ãâ
âãWise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.ãâ
âãThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.ãâ
âãExistence precedes essence.ãâ
âãEthics precedes ontology.ãâ
â Emmanuel Levinas
âãI've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.ãâ
â Michael Jordan
âãIt is much safer to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both.ãâ
â Niccolo Machiavelli
âãLife is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.ãâ
â Sarah Louise Delany
âãLet your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.ãâ
â Rabindranath Tagore
âãThe three most harmful addictions are narcotics, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.ãâ
â Nassim Nicholas Taleb
âãPrejudices are what fools use for reason.ãâ
âãThe purpose of life is a life of purpose.ãâ
â Robert Byrne
âãThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.ãâ
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âãThe real question of life after death is not whether it exists, but whether it is worth worrying about.ãâ
â Yuval Noah Harari
âãI have nothing to declare except my genius.ãâ
âãA leader is best when people barely know he exists.ãâ
âãIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change.ãâ
âãHappiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.ãâ
â Democritus
â Will Durant
âãGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.ãâ
âãArchitecture is frozen music.ãâ
â Schelling
âãDo unto others as you would have them do unto you.ãâ
â Bible, Luke 6:31
âãIf you do not change direction, you may end up where you are headingãâ
âãMen are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.ãâ
âãHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.ãâ
âãWe have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.ãâ
âãI know that I know nothing.ãâ
âãTo know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.ãâ
âãYou have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.ãâ
âãStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.ãâ
âãThe affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.ãâ
â Milarepa
âãDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.ãâ
âãIgnorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence.ãâ
âãThe only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.ãâ
âãNothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.ãâ
âãLife can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.ãâ
âãIf you want to be happy, be.ãâ
â Leo Tolstoy
âãAll of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.ãâ
âãJustice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.ãâ
â John Rawls
âãWe have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.ãâ
â Zeno of Citium
âãThe most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.ãâ
âãThe day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness the energies of love.ãâ
âãMankind is made great or little by its own will.ãâ
â Friedrich Schiller
âãThe art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.ãâ
â Alfred North Whitehead
âãThe only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.ãâ
â Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
âãThe face of the other commands me.ãâ
âãLeisure is the mother of philosophy.ãâ
âãThe ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.ãâ
âãTo understand everything is to forgive everything.ãâ
âãThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.ãâ
âãJudge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.ãâ
âãHe who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.ãâ
âãLearning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.ãâ
âãThe task of the public sphere is to subject the powerful to critique.ãâ
â Jurgen Habermas
âãIt is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.ãâ
â Adam Smith
âãAn optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.ãâ
â Albert Schweitzer
âãThe world is divided into men who have wit and no religion, and men who have religion and no wit.ãâ
âãForgiveness is the key to action and freedom.ãâ
âãTruth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.ãâ
â Richard Rorty
âãThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.ãâ
âãEntities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.ãâ
â William of Ockham
âãKnowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is insanity.ãâ
âãThe more you know, the more you realize you do not know.ãâ
âãI am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.ãâ
âãWhatever is, is.ãâ
â Parmenides
âãTo be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world.ãâ
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