Rafli Wahyu > Rafli's Quotes

“What is a Messiah but another means of inequality?”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Blacks aren't bigger, it's documented in their tribal photos. (The quote that end's anti-Black racism)”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
― Confucius

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
― Albert Einstein