Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell
My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.
Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.
Life is the tragedy,’ she said bitterly. ‘You know how they categorize Shakespeare’s plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it’s a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it’s a tragedy. So we’re all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn’t with a goddamn wedding.
Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.
When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
But whatever
However
Whenever this ends I want you to know
That right now
I love you forever
If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that’s when the religion isn’t effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.
My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
The ‘Tron’ fans have a real passion. They know their stuff and what works and why it works. It is more than a movie: it is a philosophy.
If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
The time of the autumn floods came and the hundred streams poured into the Yellow River. … Then the Lord of the River was beside himself with Joy, believing that all the beauty in the world belonged to him alone.
This intriguing ‘somewhere else,’ where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence — because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly useless.
Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.
You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That’s something worth achieving.
Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can’t.
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future – and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.
She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of – the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I’m way, way too old now, mate. That boat’s sailed.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
I have always found that actively loving
saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.
You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.
In the deaf community, there are different types of people who have different philosophies. Some believe that they should only sign. Some believe they should only speak. Some people say you should use cued speech. Some say you should use cochlear implants. Some say you shouldn’t sign. Some people say you should sign.
I asked her if I was black or white. She replied “You are a human being. Educate yourself or you’ll be a nobody!
Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.