The road of life’s twists and turns give wisdom; reading books and schooling give you knowledge.

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.

Your thoughts, beliefs, and imagination create you.

Pay attention to me.

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

We have to change every day to survive, but we fear change the most.

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...

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.

If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?

…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...

When we will learn to live in harmony with nature,we will learn to live in peace with each other.

It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the...

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!

Play the game of peace, not the war.Play, not with gun, but with laughter.

The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

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

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, do something for peace.

Being a samurai is all about selfless service and if the lord abuses the servant, it is no longer a situation of service; it becomes the situation of a victim. It is never acceptable for...

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

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told…and have a sense of humor doing it.

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

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....

Peace is a beautiful flower of love, harmony and joyPeace is a dancing bird, a joyful smile of a poor boyPeace is a little child’s innocent smile and loving kissFor a war torn mother, peace...

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very extreme...

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

Focus on kindness not on hate.Bliss will flow to open the gate.

you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true

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

Cos there’s holes in this world,see. Holes. And the likes of Thommo, and Keith, and me, and Kenny, we just sort of fall through em. We weren’t never bad kids, we just didn’t have nothing...

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

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...

The morning sun will bring you a fresh new day with a fresh new world of possibilities.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

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...

normal” functioning. What would a mark be that one could not cite? And whose origin could not be lost on the way?

But, in fact, a person’s sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life.

Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.

The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life.

When it is imperative to make a vivid offering towards life then a simulated introspection for all possible dimensions may be endured to establish a relationship with external world and world within

The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of thousands were scheming to take the next boat for the South Seas or...

Love or not to loveWhen question ariseLove or not to loveAlways love.When question arise Be or not to beAlways be. When question ariseBelieve or not to believeAlways believe. When question ariseHelp or not to helpAlways...

Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.

Moments are the elements of profit

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

You cannot negotiate art.

After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.