Philosopher Quotes
The sun is intelligent because it never rises too early, and wise because it never sets too late.
In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.
The sweeter the fruit a tree bears the greater the number of birds that eat from it.
If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.
If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.
If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name.
Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.
To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.
We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.
In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.
In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.
*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.
Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination.
The Lord gives the bread of adversity and the water of affliction for spiritual rebirth.
Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages.
In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.
In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.
Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.
Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.
Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.
The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.
The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.
Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.
No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.
It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.
I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts.
All the hungers will kill, but hunger of loneliness turns you into a philosopher.
Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of developing communities.
Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.
Don't fear the world and you will conquer it, fear it and it conquers you - rjs
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To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.
