Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls. The Philosopher's Kiss
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Quote:- Whoever tames darkness, tames time.
Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
Author:- Abhijit Naskar
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise."(reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim)
Author:- Anonymous
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]
On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
Author:- Edmund Burke
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
Author:- Max Stirner
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Whoever wishes for the heavenly blessings must first learn to prevail persistently in prayer.
Author:- Lailah Gifty Akita
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Whoever wishes to be free must pursue faith.
Author:- Lailah Gifty Akita
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
The Problems of Philosophy
Author:- Bertrand Russell
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.
Author:- Harshit Walia
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Whole universe is dark but still there are some self-luminous things like sun and other stars. Our soul is also a self-luminous body so never let it fade away in this dark universe.Darkness of the universe is an opportunity for the stars to shine
My views and ideas in form of brief essays
Author:- Alpesh Maru
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Whole universe is dark but still there are some self-luminous things like sun and other stars. Our soul is also a self-luminous body so never let it fade away in this dark universe.Darkness of the universe is an opportunity for the stars to shine
Author:- Alpesh Maru
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Whoso beset him roundWith dismal storiesDo but themselves confound;His strength the more is.
The Pilgrim's Progress
Author:- John Bunyan
Category:- hope
Quote:- Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.
The House of the Seven Gables
Author:- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
Introduction to Metaphysics
Author:- Martin Heidegger
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Author:- Walt Whitman
Category:- poetry,inspiration
Quote:- why are we here?where do we come from?traditionally,these are questionsfor philosophy,but philosophy is dead
Author:- stephen hawking
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?
The Complete Short Novels
Author:- Anton Chekhov
Category:- hope
Quote:- Why are women forced to wear a bra anyway? I miss old African days whereby we could roam our land with our breasts free. The world has mastered the best ways of suffocating a Woman. It's heartbreaking.
Author:- Mitta Xinindlu
Category:- Life