Philosophy Quotes

"At the end of the game, the pawn and the king go into the same box"

- Italian Proverb

"At the end of the game, the pawn and the king go into the same box."

- Italian Proverb

"The real issues are whether the power of Western civilization, as God has permitted it to flower in our own beloved lands, shall defy and defeat Communism; whether the rule of men who shoot their prisoners, enslave their citizens, and deride the dignity of man, shall displace the rule of those to whom the individual and his individual rights are sacred."

- General Douglas MacArthur

"War. War never changes. But men do, through the roads they walk."

- The Narrator

"I think the smile belongs only to human beings. If we want those smiles, we must create the reasons that make them appear."

- 14th Dalai Lama

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

- Carl von Clausewitz

"I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men."

- Albrecht Durer

"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."

- Paul Valéry

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."

- Paul Valéry

"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day, and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Despair is an aspect of spirit, it has to do with the eternal in a person."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once."

- Dave Barry

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."

- Edsger Dijkstra

"if you worry, you die. If you don’t worry, you die. So why worry?"

- Ryder Buck from “Leave Your Light On: The Musical Mantra Left Behind by an Illuminating Spirit”

"The purpose of war is not to die for your country. The purpose of war is to ensure that the other guy dies for his country."

- General George S. Patton

"To win battles you do not beat weapons -- you beat the soul of man of the enemy man."

- General George S. Patton

"The bird, a prophet in the breeze, has flown across the Atlantic seas."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"As the sun rises on the top of the mountain, the valleys in the dark watch it enviously! The light first visits those who have raised their mind high! Those who are at the lowest gets the light last!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don’t want the sun to set, we want it to stay right on the horizon, not below it, not above it, just right on it."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in nature; there is happiness if only there is freedom."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"If there is a waterfall at the end of a river, it is necessary to swim upstream! Crowds too are rivers that end with waterfalls!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Water is the most perfect traveler because when it travels, it becomes the path itself."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"God has not promised Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our life through; God has not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"To live only for some unknown future is superficial. It is like climbing a mountain to reach the peak without experiencing its sides. The sides of the mountain sustain life, not the peak. This is where things grow, experience is gained and technologies are mastered. The importance of the peak lies only in the fact that it defines the sides."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"The longest road out is the shortest road home."

- Irish proverb

"Night is the other half of life, and the better half."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe