Consolations Of Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

Real peace is not just a matter of structures and mechanisms. It rests above all on the adoption of a style of human coexistence marked by mutual acceptance and a capacity to forgive from the heart. We all need to be forgiven by others, so we must all be ready to forgive. Asking and granting forgiveness is something profoundly worthy of every one of us, — Pope John Paul II

I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative. — Diandra Asbaty

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything. — Dave Chappelle

If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama. — Kathie Lee Gifford

I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which is own intelligence must by now have told him belong to the childhood of the race. Philosophy can really give us nothing permanent to believe either; it is too rich in answers, each canceling out the rest. The quest for Meaning is foredoomed. Human life 'means' nothing. But this is not to say that it is not worth living. What does a Debussy Arabesque 'mean,' or a rainbow or a rose? A man delights in all of these, knowing himself to be no more
a wisp of music and a haze of dreams dissolving against the sun. Man has only his own two feet to stand on, his own human trinity to see him through: Reason, Courage, and Grace. And the first plus the second equals the third. — Peter De Vries

Pagan professors of philosophy, after the death of Hypatia, sought security in Athens, where non-Christian teaching was still relatively and innocuously free. Student life was still lively there, and enjoyed most of the consolations of higher education - fraternities, distinctive garbs, hazing, and a general hilarity. — Will Durant

To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind.
I would deceive her, And so leave her, But ah! she is so constant and so kind — Thomas Hardy

Accept yourself in a way you are created — Sunday Adelaja

What endurance is to the body, is what perseverance is to the mind. — Manuela George-Izunwa

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley

All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye. — John Ruskin

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative. — Gloria Steinem

Whereas the consolations of religion are mainly personal, the burdens are social and political as well as personal. — A.C. Grayling

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it. — Willard Van Orman Quine

It had been forever since I'd felt like I wanted to take over someone's sexual history, completely overwrite it with my hands and dick and mouth. — Christina Lauren

He begged me not to be impatient - to moderate my transports - to read soothing books - to drink nothing stronger than Hock - and to bring the consolations of philosophy to my aid. The fool! if he could not come himself, why, in the name of every thing rational, could he not have enclosed me a letter of presentation? — Edgar Allan Poe

We must, between periods of digging in the dark, endeavour always to transform our tears into knowledge. — Alain De Botton

The universe falls in love with you; that's why you got invitation to come here to make the universe joyful and beautiful with your intention and love. — Debasish Mridha

I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together. — Paul Mazursky

Ideas give life meaning. Our minds need ideas the way
our bodies need food. We are starved for visions, hungry for understanding. We
are caught up in the routines of life, distracted occasionally by those activities we
call "recreation" and "entertainment." What we as a nation have lost is the joy of
thinking, the challenge of understanding, the inspirations as well as the consolations
of philosophy. — Robert C. Solomon

To capture the drama of the unconscious, one had to start with the key, and the key was the dream. But the novelist's task was to pursue this dream, to unravel its meaning; the goal was to reach the relation of dream to life; the suspense was in finding this which led to a deeper significance of our acts. — Anais Nin

Some things can't be explained. They just are. And after a while they disappear, usually forever, or become interesting in another way. Literature's consolations are always temporary, while life is quick to begin again. It is better not even to look so hard, to leave off explaining. Nothing makes me more queasy than to spend time with people who don't know that and who can't forget, and for whom such knowledge isn't a cornerstone of life. — Richard Ford