Philosophical Quotes - Page 43

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend College - "I just hate to talk to a machine!" They say this as though it is a major philosophical position, as opposed to a description of a minor neurosis. My feeling is, if you have a problem like this, you shouldn't go around trumpeting it; you should stay home and practice talking to a machine you can feel comfortable with, such as your Water Pik, until you are ready to assume your place in modern society.

The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.

What a piece of work is a man

The man that hath no music in himself

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

He enters the port with a full sail.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.