118 Quotes Tagged: philosophical

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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Confucius, 5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician

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Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

It is easy to imagine a language consisting only of orders and reports in battle. — Or a language consisting only of questions and expressions for answering yes and no. And innumerable others. — And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

You put on a bishop's robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty soon you're a bishop. So to speak. What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth...

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact.

I shall try to persuade first the Rulers and soldiers, and then the rest of the community, that the upbringing and education we have given them was all something that happened to them only in a dream. In reality they were fashioned and reared, and their arms and equipment manufactured, in the depths of the earth, and Earth herself, their mother, brought them up, when they were complete, into the light of day; so now they must think of the land in which they live as their mother and protect her if she is attacked, while their fellow citizens they must regard as brothers born of the same mother earth…. That is the story. Do you know of any way of making them believe it?”
“Not in the first generation,” he said, “but you might succeed with the second, and later generations.

Aquellos de espíritu superior entienden la justicia. Los ordinarios, el beneficio.

Where men can't live gods fare no better.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Hunger is a way
Of standing outside windows
The entering takes away.

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