All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”

“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power,” Tuek said. “You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.”

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

“Il n’y a de réalité que dans l’action.(There is no reality except in action.)”

“A bird is safe in its nest – but that is not what its wings are made for.”

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage”

“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. ”

“Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”

“Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use.”

“Maybe that’s it, […] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn’t that we’re supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we’re the pieces.” […] “Maybe […] what we’re supposed to do is come together. That’s how we stop the breaking.”

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”