Philosophy Quotes
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
James JoyceJames Joyce The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
MenciusMencius What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
Swami VivekanandaSwami Vivekananda Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
Phil McGrawPhil McGraw The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
Sam HarrisSam Harris The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.
George CarlinGeorge Carlin There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
Peter DruckerPeter Drucker Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
Condoleezza RiceCondoleezza Rice The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
Mark TwainMark Twain What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization.
Paramahansa YoganandaParamahansa Yogananda People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe