Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.
—Seneca
Believers are unacquainted with their own condition, if they look upon their mercies as dispensed in a way of common providence.
—John Owen
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
—Thomas Edison
Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
—John Milton
Unexpressed emotions will never die.
They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
—Sigmund Freud
To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Never believe that others can show you the way to a good life and that you can’t find it yourself. Pay attention to the inner voice of your reason alone and not to the orders and suggestions of others.
—Leo Tolstoy
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
—Thomas Aquinas
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
—Plato
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via” – “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
—Seneca
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
—Pablo Picasso
Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
—Georg Hegel
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find way around the laws.
—Plato
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
—Plato
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
—Plato
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
—Plato
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
—Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
—Socrates
The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it…..Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
—Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
—Socrates
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
—Immanuel Kant
Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
—Aristotle
The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.
—Charlie Chaplin
In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.
—Charlie Chaplin
O may I press forward with renewed diligence and strive more earnestly to make a progress in the way that leadeth unto life eternal, Amen. Amen.
—William Wilberforce
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
—Sun Tzu
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our Lord has many ways of working. The only thing that can matter is to be obedient to what, so far as we know His will, is His word for us, and to keep to it till He directs otherwise.
—Amy Carmichael
The omnipresent God sees and knows all the properties of the beings that He hath made. He knows all the connections, dependencies, and relations, and all the ways wherein one of them can affect another.
—John Wesley