"philosophy"タグの名言

If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

belief is the death of intelligence.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.