Philosophy Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”

“Getting older is not an intellectually demanding process.”

“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”

“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.”

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”

“Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).”

“My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.”

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage”

“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”

“I have gradually come to understand what every great philosophy until now has been: the confession of its author and a kind of involuntarily unconscious memoir.”

“This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.’ ‘No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart’s beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?”

“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”