Create a goal and a purpose to live for, work for, and die for.

Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not...

It is not on your fears that good dreams are built but on hope and determination – rjs

Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use,...

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King’s Men)

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

Wisdom is not guaranteed with age but is realized through one’s sensitivity to humanity and the universe

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet’s father’s ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Peace means the way of finding the inner calmness, tranquility and joy, in the midst of conflicts and injustice.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.

Independence is like a flower that nurtures itself in the light of another.

Let us find the way to the peaceLe us make peace, the way of lifeLet us sing the song of peaceLet us dance together with joy of lifeLet us feel and love each otherLet us...

aquele que quer responder às injúrias com o ódio vive na tristeza ou na mágoa, aquele que quer vencer o ódio com o amor combate alegremente e sem temor. Triunfa tanto sobre um grande número...

A truth that’s told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them....

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d’you think?

Living as human being and as a divinity.moving from tension into relaxation,from relaxation into trance,from trance into a more intense contact with other people.from that contact back into tension and so on,Like The Serpent swallowing...

It is insanity to expect to live in peace when always we are getting ready for war.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than...

When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart

Peace is a new father Searching for a jobWith courage and vigorWith a smile and rigorBut with a great need for money.

Logika adalah keadilan dan dialektika adalah kebijaksanaan

…only in the late 1100s and 1200s did scholars in Sicily and Spain translate Aristotle’s greatest philosophical and scientific texts. These translations had an impact reminiscent of those science fiction stories in which the world...

How you accept a situation, is your choice and depends on your power of perception.

Some want to live within the soundOf church or chapel bell;I want to run a rescue shop,Within a yard of hell.

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

Extend your hand to help others and be an example.

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to...

Call no man happy until he is dead.

Your future will be determined not by your education or bank account, but by your optimism and attitude.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion…

Complaining or picketing will not solve a problem but understanding will.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Almost all arguments for skepticism make reference to seemingly ridiculous possibilities—we are being deceived by an evil demon, life is just a dream, we are brains in vats. You might propose psychoanalysis, rather than philosophical...

Make enthusiasm a way of life. Make optimism a way of success. Make gratitude a way of happiness.

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

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.

O my love! In this loveless world, you are my world.

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. ‘Reason,’ Dr. Pritchett had told them, ‘is...

Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison...

Love is the universal language of heart.Feeling are the universal language of love.Smile is the universal language of charm.Attraction is the universal language of life.

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.

I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man should have a philosophy. For there are certain aspects of...

It takes courage, strength, and conviction to love someone deeply, persistently, and endlessly.

We are limited by knowledge, not by courage.

Vivo sin vivir en mí… muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive… I die because I am not dying.)

To all those who still wish to talk about man, about his reign or his liberation, to all those who still ask themselves questions about what man is in his essence, to all those who...