To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now that's a question.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
Fear clogs; Faith liberates.
Simplify, simplify, simplify.
You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.
If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.
Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.
To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.
The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
I am. I think. I will.
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