#philosopher

"To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it."

"Closed eyes cannot see the light"

"One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light."

"The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones."

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

"We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer."

"Watching TV at my own time. Its beneficiary, but watching TV at its own time . Its time wasting."

"Ambition soars and also slithers"

"And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world."

"My ship came in,then it sank!"

"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?"

"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."

"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it."

"A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them."

"There is no one who is happier than the person who is able to control his or her life. Who does what he /she thinks its right. Who pleases himself before everyone. Who doesn't suffer from what people will say syndrome. When you have time . Find a way to please yourself. Then you will be happiest person alive."

"Biggest mistake that people make is. That they forget that there is always next time. For any event, any situation and any circumstances."

"If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed."

"Success is not an activity but a process."

"Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance"

"Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order."