Philosophy Quotes

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others.

Before you act, listen.
Before you react, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

Go left. Go right. Don't do it, do it. Yeh those are choices that anyone can see. But only smart people recognize that not doing anything is a choice all on its own. You just chose not to make a choice.

Always prefer to be a fool in a group of dumb intelligent people, as it makes me more smart.

A London lady sat next to him at this party ... What will you do if it turns out you're wrong? she asked. I mean, what if -- uh -- when the time comes, you should meet Him? What will you say? His bright, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contemplated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.'

"Breaking Away from the Darkness of Ignorance"

I am driven by two philosophies: Know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and reduce the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

“The inher­ent prin­ci­ples of human exis­tence are summed up in the sin­gle law of sol­i­dar­ity. This is the golden rule of human­ity, and may be for­mu­lated thus: no per­son can recog­nise or realise his or her own human­ity except by recog­nis­ing it in oth­ers and so coop­er­at­ing for its real­i­sa­tion by each and all. No man can eman­ci­pate him­self save by eman­ci­pat­ing with him all the men about him.”

I want to let you know that if I had been born in a different place...I could have met you, and we could have been drinking buddies, and the friends I have now would have never met me. So I propose a cheers, to you random stranger and the life that you have that I know nothing about. May your happiness overlap mine one day.

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An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work.

Don’t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

men establish and confirm their daily life of routine and habit everywhere, which is still built on purely illusionary foundations.

To a philosopher all as is it is called, is gossip

Our life is frittered away by detail.

Qui gardera les gardiens ? (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?)

A true individual is always in the process of becoming.

My eyes lead me to sin. Shall I rip them out right now, Lord? Or should I just pick and choose which commandments I should obey, like the rest of your followers?