Riad: philosopher

Le Mots
(an essay by Jean-Paul Sartre that was awarded
with Nobel Prize in literature, which Sartre declined) -

The Words
of poets, philosophers, writers that shaped me...

A human is doomed to be free. (Jean-Paul Sartre, L'existencialism est un humanism)
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell)
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. (Henry David Thoreau)
I am just like any other person, that is I am unique. (Jean-Jacque Rousseau, Les confessions)
If I try to be like him, who will be like me? (Yiddish proverb)
The most simple questions are the most comlex: What are you? Where are you from? Where are you going? Don't be afraid to answer them, and watch how your answers change with time. (Richard Bach, Illusions)
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Culture is a thin skin of the melted magma. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms)
Patriotism is a last asylum of villians. (Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte)
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. (Henri Bergson)
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. (Heraclitus)
Thank God for Thee createth all necessary simple and all complex unnecessary. (Gregory Skovoroda)
God is a sphere with its center everywhere and border nowhere. (Nicolas of Cusa, ascents to Parmenid)
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Old Spanish Prayer

My Lord! Give me strength to stand what I cannot change;
give me courage to change what I cannot stand;
and give me wisdom to distinguish between those two.

I've learned...

Zen stories to tell your neighbors

Familiar Quotations

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