philosophy

"Life is a magical melody."

"It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical."

"We are all teachers, we all have knowledge and experiences that can teach others."

"The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love."

"Bespeckled Heroes [10w] Great heroes in 100 years become statues speckled with birdshit."

"Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit."

"There is no stress. It is a misinterpretation of a situation. Just change your perception and stress will melt away."

"When I compete, I leave it all on the table. That's my philosophy for the Hot Dog Eating Contest. Do you know what's in those things? Gross!"

"It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are."

"La prueba de ausencia no es prueba de ausencia"

"Socrates should have written comics."

"إذا أشارت إليكم المحبة فاتبعوها, وإن كانت مسالكها صعبة متحدرة.وإذا ضمتكم جناحيها فاطيعوها, وإن جرحكم السيف المستور بين ريشها. واذا خاطبتكم المحبة فصدقُوها, وإن عَطل صوتها أحلامكم وبدَدها كما تجعل الريح الشمالية البستان قاعا صفصفا.لأنه كما أن المحبة تكللكم فهي أيضا تصلبكم,وكما تعمل على نموكم هكذا تعلمكم وتستأصل الفاسد منكم."

"So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self."

"You have made the moon,"The Jester said. "That is the moon."

"Who, Me? We marry nearly the same person over and over again,hoping next time they'll get it right."

"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."

"Fair speech may hide a foul heart."

"Love gives you eyes."

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."

"What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne."