philosophy

"ای آمده از عالم روحانی تفتحیران شده در چهار و پنج و شش و هفتمی خور چو ندانی ز کجا آمده ایخوش باش ندانی به کجا خواهی رفت"

"There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them."

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."

"Że też w tym kraju każdy kelner jest filozofem i każdy filozof kelnerem."

"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."

"Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey."

"I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity."

"Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves."

"A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way."

"Forgiveness is the best tonic for heart."

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

"wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good."

"Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments."

"Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power,"Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick."

"The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine."

"Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a person's needs."

"Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to ‘play God’, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today."

"Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?"

"If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve"

"It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity."