Philosophy proverbs

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◆ Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Without music, life would be a mistake.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

- Elie Wiesel99

◆ Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

- Mark Twain99

◆ A day without laughter is a day wasted.

- Nicolas Chamfort99

◆ Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

- Marilyn Monroe99

◆ How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Anne Frank99

◆ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead99

◆ We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

- May Sarton99

◆ May you live every day of your life.

- Jonathan Swift99

◆ Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

- Soren Kierkegaard98

◆ The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isnt a story of conquest and rule. Enacting it doesnt give them power. Enacting it gives them lives that are satisfying and meaningful to them. This is what youll find if you go among them. Theyre not seething with discontent and rebellion, not incessantly wrangling over what should be allowed and what forbidden, not forever accusing each other of not living the right way, not living in terror of each other not going crazy because their lives seem empty and pointless, not having to stupefy themselves with drugs to get through the days, not having a new religion every week to give them something to hold on to, not forever searching for something to do or something to believe in that will make lives worth living. And I repeat this is not because they live close to nature or have no formal government or because theyre innately noble. This is simply because theyre enacting a story that works well for people a stor

- Daniel Quinn98

◆ According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

- Moliere98

◆ I think; therefore I am.

- Rene Descartes98

◆ Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

- Socrates98