Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Nash

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Jostein Gaarder

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Radhanath Swami

Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

Thomas Aquinas

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Thomas Aquinas

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Thomas Aquinas

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Thomas Aquinas

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Thomas Aquinas

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Thomas Aquinas

Beware of the person of one book.

Alberto Manguel

Evil requires no reason.

Albert Schweitzer

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Walter Raleigh

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

Yann Martel

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

Willie Nelson

Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

William Peter Blatty

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

William Petty

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

Pope Francis

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

Allen Ginsberg

This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.