Die besten Zitate der Welt!

down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss
infinity pleased our parents
one inch looks good to us

E.E. Cummings

Stichwörter: poetry philosophy religion

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Stichwörter: life philosophy death sun

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Francis Bacon

Stichwörter: philosophy

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Voltaire

Stichwörter: philosophy

songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.

Bob Dylan

Stichwörter: music philosophy legend pop-culture superficiality

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Blaise Pascal

Stichwörter: philosophy

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

Kahlil Gibran

Stichwörter: wisdom knowledge learning poetry philosophy teaching