Scholar Quotes

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

No sober person dances.

If you #‎ love love, look for yourself.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

Do not look back,No one knows how the world ever began.Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever.If you dwell on the past or future,You will miss the moment.

Silence gives answers.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance

Live in the opening wherethere is no door to hide behind.

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

I'm dominated by Love, By my passion of love for Love

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

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.

When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

We are born poets. we become orators.

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

I was youand never knew it.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

Love alone can explain the mysteries of Love.

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

Things never happen the same way twice.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

Philosophy is the true mother of science.

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

While there's life, there's hope.

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.