All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get – who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.”

“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”

“I think it was the institution…I was trying to master it.”

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

“Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.”

“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.”

“Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.”