Philosophy
Quotes - Happiness can be Found
“Let's
think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with
the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
―
Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“Happiness
can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on
the light.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“Those
who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
―
Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
“We
are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our
thinking.”
―
Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
“The
price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil
men.”
―
Plato
“You
only live twice:
Once
when you are born
And
once when you look death in the face”
―
Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
“For
me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than
I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far
that gets you.”
―
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Science
is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of
spirituality.”
―
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Heard
melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
―
John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems
“A
paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
―
William S. Burroughs
“An
intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind
watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher
and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical
question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really
means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
―
Albert Camus
“It
is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude
to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tiger
got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man
got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger
got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man
got to tell himself he understand.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“Grown-ups
never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be
always and forever explaining things to them”
―
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Do
not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what
amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy
the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
―
Plato
“Music
is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
―
Ludwig van Beethoven
“If
you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to
explain!”
―
Adolf Hitler
“A
concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can
be thrown through the window.”
―
Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“I
don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become
what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
―
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
“The
easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to
suspect that my own is also.”
―
Mark Twain
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