philosophy

"All statistics have outliers."

"[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy"

"Love life, Live Love"

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

"There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that."

"You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead."

"If you understand others you are smart.If you understand yourself you are illuminated.If you overcome others you are powerful.If you overcome yourself you have strength.If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.If you can act with vigor, you have a will.If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.If you die without loss, you are eternal."

"Your success should create a path that inspires others to follow."

"Logika adalah keadilan dan dialektika adalah kebijaksanaan"

"Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening."

"We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person."

"It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity."

"Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular."

"Time is just quantified eternity."

"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."

"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."

"No-brainers [10w] No-brainers are challenging enough for people with no fucking brains."

"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."

"It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all."

"Excellence is not an event but a habit."