Philosophical Quotes

“Learn to recognize omens, and follow them”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.”
― Andreas Eschbach, The Carpet Makers

“Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.]”
― Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“What are you thinking?"
"Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see."
"Everything down there is exactly the same," he said. "You're the one that's different.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey”
― Amunhotep El Bey

“Only gravity can hold me down; only myself can hold me back.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey”
― Amunhotep El Bey

“Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.”
― Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle

“Jace turned to look over his shoulder, the wind whipping his hair into tangles. "What are you thinking?" he called back to her.
"Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see."
"Everything down there is exactly the same," he said. "You're the one that's different.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power, that is the simple sense of the ontological proof. And if there is art enough a lie can enlighten us as well as the truth. What is the truth anyway, that truth? As we know ourselves we are fake objects, fakes, bundles of illusions. Can you determine exactly what you felt or thought or did?”
― Iris Murdoch

“You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey”
― Amunhotep El Bey

“If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter.”
― Carroll Bryant

“It all begins with goodness in the heart.”
― Bjorn Street

“Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not blue the obvious deduction. To trail the genealogies of these high mortal miseries, carries us at last among the sourceless primogenitures of the gods; so that, in the face of all the glad, hay-making suns, and the softcymballing, round the harvest-moons, we must needs give in to this: that the gods themselves are not for ever glad. The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers.”
― Herman Melville

“While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in.
silently and greyly, with its head bowed and its face covered.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“ I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich, Return to Stantasyland

“Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.”
― Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

“You know what turns dirt into diamonds?"
"Pressure. Weight. Heat..."
"The geological equivalent of torture.”
― Laura Argiri, The God in Flight

“..chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell...”
― Håkan Nesser

“Some people were destined to have a significant other.
Some people were destined for greatness.
But few others were destined to be soldiers, to be warriors, to be alone.
That is me.
It is not a path that i have chosen, but it is a path that i must walk.
Some may think this is sad, but i have come to peace with it.
Because i am and always will be
a soldier, a warrior...Alone.”
― Chris Söderström

“Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.”
― Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

“Often times, "shame" is the word that best describes reality.”
― Carroll Bryant

“You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing”
― Julia Heywood

“Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.”
― Casper Silk, Hotel Noir

“I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned”
― Alfred Tennyson, Maud

“No man is an island, no man stands alone”
― Dennis Brown crown prince of reggae

“Good and Bad is inside everybody. The difference is that the Good remember when they have also been bad and the Bad remember when they have only been good.”
― Girish Kohli

“Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.”
― Wil Zeus

“Maybe they were born of karma, their own or their parents', Zack thought; maybe the universe had a purpose for them, and they were what they were because the world needed them to be that way.”
― Jackie Trippier Holt, Freaks Like Us