Philosophical Quotes - Page 29

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

You can only be you when you do your best. When you don't do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you. That's a seed that you should really nurture in your mind. You don't need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don't need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.

I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be based. These principles are the laws and conditions of motions and of forces, which especially relate to philosophy.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind?

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.