philosophy

"Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man"

"If I waste all my charity, all I’ll wind up with in the end is the wind. Still, I think I want to be the Dandelion of Love."

"What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?"

"How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?"

"What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition."

"Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea."

"I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it."

"Laughter is the hand of God on the shoulder of a troubled world."

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

"Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success...and I will simply say, "good Karma."

"Find an opportunity to serve and success will be yours."

"বিপদ যখন আসে একটার পর একটা আসে। বিপদরা পাঁচ ভাইবোন। এদের মধ্যে খুব মিল। এই ভাইবোনরা কখনো একা কারো কাছে যায় না। প্রথম একজন যায়, তারপর তার অন্য ভাইবোনরা উপস্থিত হয়।"

"Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical."

"The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that."

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο."

"I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful"

"...engaging with a work of ancient philosophy can be a two-way street; bringing it into a discussion can enrich that discussion, which also encouraging us to see the work in light of that discussion."

"A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!"