#philosophy

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#life

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex. ↗

— Adam Sedgwick

#aim #anger #apex #babel #daring

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#philosophy #theology #change

All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer ↗

— Robert Owen

#humor #people #philosophy #art

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#facts #learning #life #life-lessons #mathematics

It only becomes art if it touches other people. ↗

— Andreas Eschbach

#communication #music #performing #philosophical #philosophy

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#philosophy #life

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#philosophy #life

In the dark , everything is scary ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#wisdom #life

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#belief #cooperation #educational #factor #friendship