All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“It is culture that is the bully.”Orn Ald yos’Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation”

“إن ضيق أفق الإنسان الحديث يتجلّى أكثر ما يكون في اعتقاده بأنه لا يرى أمامه لُغزاً. كأن حكمته هي مجموع علمه وجهله معاً. إنه جهل، ولكن الإنسان غير واعٍ به، حتى أنه يتقبله باعتباره معرفة في مواجهة أعظم لغز، يتصرّف بعنجهية وغرور، حتى أنه لا يرى المشكلة. وهذا الحجم الحقيقي لجهل الإنسان”

“When you’ve had one call after another and your little one is tugging on your shirt, remember what really matters. When the milk is splattered all over the floor and those little eyes are looking at you for your reaction, remember what really matters. It takes 5 minutes to clean up spilled milk; it takes much longer to clean up a broken spirit.”

“The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, itturns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits theground it gets all mushed up. So it’s only absolutely perfect when it’s falling through the air,this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!.”

“You have to be an artist and a madman…”

“Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!”

“But time given to wishing for what can’t be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.”

“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person’s own life.”

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

“What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.”

“You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.”

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”

“Raise a smile and lower stress”

“The awful thing is that if i can forget they’re people, it will be no different at all”

“If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough.”