Tag: quote

  • The root of a tree is rarely, if ever as sweet as its fruit. As opposed to the sweetness of deception that always yields bitter fruit.

    Zaid Ismail

  • The best of kings are at the doors of scholars, and the worst of scholars are at the doors of kings.

  • It takes courage to love again, not a perfect lover.

    Cynically Jaded

  • Choose your company wisely

    It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words

    The Prophet Mohammed (S.A.W)

  • (Source: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4370.Elizabeth_Wurtzel)

  • Is there an argument against God?

    My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet. Of course, I could have given up my idea of justice by saying that it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too—for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my private fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist—in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless—I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality—namely my idea of justice—was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

    C.S. Lewis

  • You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

    Albert Camus (via phredosophy)

    This is surprising to see given how many people I’ve seen quoting Camus, but all of them are in search of the meaning of life? Duh! This is the kind of simple logic that eludes us when we go in search of greater meanings of greater things without appreciating the simple beauty first. 

  • I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my Fool.

    Theodore I. Rubin