Personal power depends on the power of imagination; personal achievement depends on commitment and conviction.

The less people know, the more they talk. The less people understand, the more they try to explain.

Give yourself to a great cause, not only your possessions.

To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant...

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the...

Peace is a fresh flower.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

Success is a creative journey with meaning and purpose.

Pay attention to me.

If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough.

When someone hurts you, hates you, don’t hate him, win him with love; you will find the peace.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of reason’s most important occupations? Still more, how little...

Love is divine and peaceful but hate is devilish and dreadful. So love everyone without judging them, you will be in peace always.

Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory….everything is forgotten, even a great love. That’s what’s sad about life, and also what’s wonderful about it. There is only a...

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

When you become the source of joy, when you become the source of peace, your world and world around you become joyful and peaceful. you become the symbol and messenger of joy and peace.

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal...

…atheism leaves no room for excuses…

If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one’s relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one’s doubts. It has a function to be...

Peace is inner joy, tranquility, nonjudgmental love and universal compassion.

Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec la perspective d’un réel futur qui ne vaille guère mieux. Chaque minute pleine porte en elle-même la...

Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What’s more, there are whole races who believe it!

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an...

Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens….inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which asserted that knowledge of the nature of things is in the...

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

War can’t bring peace only understanding and love can do that.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln’s maxim and philosophy]

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

I believe the real reason we pursue anything in life is not for the thing itself, but for who we become on the way to its accomplishment. We strive to accomplish things in the attempt...

The author’s projected intellectual climate nearly 500 years in the future proclaims itself too pragmatic to consider living well as important as material satisfaction. This reminds us, ironically, that choosing NOT to consider life’s deeper...

details”? When you start really imagining something you have to forget the details anyhow, they just get in the way. Art isn’t the reproduction of oddments out of life.’‘I never said it was!’ said Arnold....

World will be so beautiful without war.Every child will grow up without fear.Mother will smile; child will play.Friendship will prosper all the way.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak?

There is no passion or mission. There is no wisdom or vision.There is only you.

So you think that money is the root of all evil? […] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods...

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

philosophical discourse”?

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quite so…

I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it’s of no importance to me, who put us here on earth to do our duty as citizens and fathers; but I don’t need...

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

Worse is man who abandons himself

I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must...

O thy! Thou made me infinite with infinite love.Not by finishing, but by transforming to infinite for infinite joy!

My mistake was to confuse a destiny to love with a destiny to love a specific person. It was the error of thinking that Chloe, rather than love, was inevitable.

Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.

You only live twice:Once when you’re bornAnd once when you look death in the face.