philosophy

"An enlightened life can be so powerful that it can illuminate the whole world."

"You are the prettiest flower in the garden of my love. As the moon longs for the night, my heart longs for your heart."

"A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both."

"Isn't wine prohibited here?"the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,"said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is."

"Poetry Calling [10w] Poetry's not a calling.It's a whispering in your ear."

"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."

"You are a whole lot better today than yesterday."

"What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God."

"How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?""You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think."

"Le but n'est rien, le développement est tout. Le spectacle ne veut en venir à rien d'autre qu'à lui-même."

"I am a citizen of the world."

"It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may kick the chair against which he accidentally stumbles, and derive great satisfaction from thus 'getting even' with the perverse chair."

"Depression Busy people have neither the time nor the swimming skills to take a divein a pool of depression."

"Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere."

"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."

"First I dream my life. Then I live in that dream with love and joy."

"The essence of life is love, and that is my wealth and influence."

"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."

"The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly."

"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."