Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Epicetus: Add practice then training
“(A good philosopher) should not be satisfied with mere learning, but add practice then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.” —Epicetus.
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Thomas Kempis: Weight scales equally
“It is always the other man that has too much rope given him — our wishes must not be thwarted; rules for everybody else, but our own liberties must not be abridged for a moment. My neighbor as myself — it is not often, is it, that we weight the scales equally?” —Thomas Kempis.
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G K Chesterton: Idolatry
“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Queerer
“There is nothing queerer today than the importance of unimportant things. Except, of course, the unimportance of important things.” —G K Chesterton.
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Lin Yutang: Big shadows
“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.” —Lin Yutang, writer and translator (10 Oct 1895-1976).
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G K Chesterton: One method
“A vast amount of the moral philosophy, political philosophy, religious and irreligious philosophy, of our time resolves itself into one method. This consists of putting the question in the wrong way, and then asking for a plain answer.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Been to a dentist?
“What do people mean when they say, ‘I am not afraid of God because I know He is good’? Have they never even been to a dentist?” —C S Lewis, A Grief Observed.
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Helen Hayes: Only glimpse of eternity
“The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity: love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.” —Helen Hayes.
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Seneca: Digest it
“We should see to it that whatever we have absorbed should not be allowed to remain unchanged, or it will be no part of us. We must digest it: otherwise it will merely enter the memory and not the reasoning power [in memoriam non in ingenium]. Let us loyally welcome such foods and make them…
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G K Chesterton: Horrible and deadly danger
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” —G K Chesterton.
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Benjamin Rush: Freedom
“Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.” —Benjamin Rush, physician and Founding Father.
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Simon Sinek: Leaders
“The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Opportunity
“We should all have an opportunity to feel a part of something, not just have a part in something.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Errors
“We only regard errors as being things that are within our circle of competence. So if somebody knows how to make money in cocoa beans, or they know how to make money in a software company or anything, and we miss that, that is not an error, as far as we’re concerned. What’s an error…
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G K Chesterton: Civilization
“Civilization is not a development. It is a decision. It is the decisive people who have become civilized; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher skeptics, or the idealistic doubters who have remained barbarians.” —G K Chesterton.
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Guillermo del Toro: Art and religion
“When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.” —Guillermo del Toro.
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John Brunner: Absolute evil
“If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.” —John Brunner, novelist (24 Sep 1934-1995).
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Desmond Tutu: Talk to your enemies
“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” —Desmond Tutu.
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John W Gardner: Stand out of their light
‘When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: “Only stand out of my light.” Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of…
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C S Lewis: Repentance
“Repentance means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into… It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death.” —C S Lewis.
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Desmond Tutu: Neutrality
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” —Desmond Tutu, clergyman (b. 7 Oct 1931).
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Nick Cannon: Nobody can predict the future
“Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship youre in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other…
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C S Lewis: Interruptions
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life — the life God is sending one day by day.” —C S Lewis.
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Nigella Lawson: Enjoy food
“People don’t have to be greedy, but it seems to me that life is a whole lot better if you enjoy food.” —-Nigella Lawson.
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G K Chesterton: Ignore reason, ignore restraint
“If your ideals ignore reason, your instincts will ignore restraint.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Shattered time after time
“My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.” —C S Lewis, A Grief Observed.
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C S Lewis: Fidelity
“Being in love first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.” —C S Lewis.
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Dr. Peter Kreeft: Rebellion
“In an age when rebellion is the new orthodoxy, the old orthodoxy is the only remaining rebellion.” —Dr. Peter Kreeft.
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Vladimir Putin: No heart, no brain
“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.” —Vladimir Putin.
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G K Chesterton: Dense sort of ignorance
“An entirely new and unique and dense sort of ignorance will be manufactured by a combination of censorship of the Press and censorship by the Press.” —G K Chesterton.
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Leonard Ravenhill: Preach happiness or holiness
“If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.” —Leonard Ravenhill.
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Bob Iger: Whatever works for them
“I do find that most creative people end up applying different rules to their lives—in terms of how their lives are managed—because creativity doesn’t necessarily conform to more traditional boundaries; whether their hours of work, places of work, circumstances. What you have to accept with creators and creativity is that one rule doesn’t apply. It’s…
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Christopher Dawson: Present plight of Western culture
“The present plight of Western culture is due to the fact that the real values that we are defending against the totalitarian state are values that have been divorced from their religious foundations, and are in so far indefensible, but which remain the highest values we possess.” —Christopher Dawson.
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G K Chesterton: Philosopher king
“What we need, as the ancients understood, is not a politician who is a business man, but a king who is a philosopher.” —G K Chesterton.
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David Alpay: Either like something or don’t
“You either like something, or you don’t, you won’t change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it.” —David Alpay.
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G K Chesterton: When science becomes religion
“Unfortunately science is only splendid when it is science. When science becomes religion it becomes superstition.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust is like love. Both parties have to feel it before it really exists.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Two halves
“It is obvious that a politician often passes the first half of his life in explaining that he can do something, and the second half of it in explaining that he cannot.” —G K Chesterton.
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Vaclav Havel: Purely moral act
“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.” —Vaclav Havel, writer, Czech Republic president (5 Oct 1936-2011).
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Peter Bregman: Makes them ignore you
“Setting a rule and then letting people break it doesn’t make them like you, it just makes them ignore you.” —Peter Bregman.
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Max Levchin: Should have taken much more statistics
“I am not much given to regret, so I puzzled over this one a while. Should have taken much more statistics in college, I think.” —Max Levchin, Paypal Co-Founder.
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G K Chesterton: Mental destruction
“The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed…Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Infinity of angles
“It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Abolish religion if you like
“Abolish religion if you like. Throw everything on secular government if you like. But do not be surprised if a machinery that was never meant to do anything but secure external decency and order fails to secure internal honesty and peace.” —G K Chesterton.
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Leonard Cohen: Crack in everything
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” —Leonard Cohen, musician and writer (21 Sep 1934-2016).
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Simon Sinek: Drive for order
“The drive for order interrupts the beautiful chaos needed for creativity to thrive.” —Simon Sinek.
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Rutherford B Hayes: Unrestricted competition
“The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.” —Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US president (4 Oct 1822-1893).
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Ray Dalio: Go to the pain
“I think curiosity and character are the two most important attributes to have. I’m not sure how to best build curiosity in people, but I’d say the habit of asking a lot of questions like ‘why’ in order to make sense of things is good. As for character, the most important habit is to go…
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Warren Buffett: Show up every day
“We do find, if you just show up every day, like Woody Allen said, and you answer the phone and read the paper, every now and then, you see something that makes sense to do.” —Warren Buffett.
