All Quotes By Tag: Philosophical

“This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”

“It’s now very common to hear people say, ‘I’m rather offended by that.’ As if that gives them certain rights. It’s actually nothing more… than a whine. ‘I find that offensive.’ It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. ‘I am offended by that.’ Well, so fucking what.”[I saw hate in a graveyard — Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”

“We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.”

“Death twitches my ear;’Live,’ he says… ‘I’m coming.”

“Avoid loud and aggressive persons,they are vexations to the spirit.”

“Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?”

“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.”

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”

“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common….”

“The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.”

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”

“The best things in life make you sweaty.”