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60 Insights From Famous Philosophers That Are All *One* Sentence

Deep thoughts from deep thinkers, that all happen to just be one sentence. 
Mélanie Berliet
August 18, 2016
“There is no experience from which you cannot learn something.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Tagged: Life
“Life is indifferent to your expectations.”
— Unknown, Secular Theology: American Radical Theological Thought (2001-07-13)
Tagged: Life
“I don't care how tall you are. I care how tall you play.”
— John Wooden, Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success: 12 Lessons for Extraordinary Performance and Personal Excellence
Tagged: Life
“Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.”
— Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise
Tagged: Life
“Ignoring is universally acknowledged to be a worse punishment than death.”
— Benjamin Rush, An Enquiry into the Effects of Public Punishments
Tagged: Life
“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man.”
— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
Tagged: Life
“Advance years bring greater trials.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“In Greece, wise men spoke on public affairs but fools decided them.”
— Plutarch, The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
Tagged: Life
“If monkeys could reach the point of being bored, they could turn into human beings.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us.’”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1
Tagged: Only If We Don't Know It
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.’”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family and Editors
Tagged: Books, Power of Books
“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
— Unknown, Dictionary of Quotations
Tagged: Deep Thoughts, Progress, Slow Progress, How To Change Your Life, Changing Your Life
“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.’”
— Henri Bergson, Speech at the Descartes Conference in Paris (1937)
Tagged: Deep Thoughts, Ethics
“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”
— W.H Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
Tagged: Uncertainty, taste
“Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious things.”
— Randolph Bourne, The Excitement of Friendship
Tagged: Friendship, How To Take Care of Friends
“In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.”
— Martin Buber, Between Man and Man (Routledge Classics)
Tagged: Solitude, Alone
“For me there is one measure of true love: you can insult the other.”
— Slavoj Žižek, The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
Tagged: Love, What love is
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
— Marcus Garvey, Central American Writers of West Indian Origin
Tagged: Conservation, Orphans of History
“To be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.”
— Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Struggle, Motivational
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.’”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
Tagged: Life Lessons, Deep Thoughts, Life, Complicating Things
“The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.”
— Timothy Leary, Harvard Law School Forum (1966)
Tagged: Language, God, Theology, Religion, Science, God Speaks, How We Hear The Secret of Life
“What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.’”
— Peter Singer, Writings on an Ethical Life
Tagged: Ethics, History
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.’”
— Noam Chomsky, Grief One Day at a Time: 365 Meditations to Help You Heal After Loss
Tagged: Optimism, Healing
“Thinking – the talking of the soul with itself.”
— Plato, Plato: The Complete Works (31 Books)
Tagged: Deep Insights, Thinking, Thoughts, Soul
“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”
— Plato, Plato: The Complete Works (31 Books)
Tagged: Deep Insights, Thinking, Master, Servant
“What was scattered gathers. What was gathered blows apart.”
— Heraclitus, Fragments (Penguin Classics) (English and Greek Edition)
Tagged: Scatter, Trying To Fix Things, It All Unwinds
“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”
— Plato, Plato: The Complete Works (31 Books)
Tagged: Deep Insights, Thinking, Thoughts, Soul
“Chaos is being yourself.”
— E.M Cioran, A Short History of Decay
Tagged: Chaos, Deep Insights, Identity, Be yourself
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, The Essential Kierkegaard
Tagged: Insight, Life