Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Thinking is another attribute of the soul; and here I discover what properly belongs to myself. This alone is inseparable from me. I am--I exist: this is certain;;"Rene Descartes, "Discourse on Method and the Meditations, Meditation 2

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

I think, therefore Descartes exists.

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a ''will to renewal.'' This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of ''crises'' -- of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no ''crisis,'' there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He should inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them every day.

Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.

The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Everything is self-evident.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

I think therefore I am.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.