H Quotes
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“He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war.”
“He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.”
Source: The Epicurus Reader
“He who says he does something, let him do it to the best of his ability: with passion, conviction and excellence; skillfully. This is the only way we change the world.”
“He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.”
“He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.”
“He who says he never needs help, most does.”
“He who says money doesn't buy happiness
Is like a fox who, when he can't reach grapes, claims they lack ripeness.”
“He who says o'er much I love not is in love.”
Source: Ovid
“He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.”
“He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.”
“He who says the truth is not necessarily truthful - On Honesty.”
Source: To Life from the Shadows: Conversations with the Light
“He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.”
Source: Works: Account of His Life and Letters
“He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.”
Source: The Theology of an Evolutionist
“He who searches for Divine Reality with all his heart and soul and finds it, becomes aware that, before he began to seek God, God was seeking him, in order to draw him into the joy of fellowship with Him, into the peace of His Presence.”
“He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.”
“He who searches for his beloved is not afraid of the world.”
“He who searches for inward things seas not with the eyes of the body, but with the eye of the soul.”
Source: Death Is Only the Beginning: Making Way For the New
“He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac
“He who searches shall find the deity.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man”
“He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.”
“He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.”
“He who seeks equity must do equity.”
Source: Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in England and America
“He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.”
“He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.”
“He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.”
“He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.”
“He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.”
“He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.”
Source: The Old Regime and the Revolution: The controversial bestselling guide to the origins of the French Revolution
“He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.”
“He who seeks may go astray. All solitude is sin/ says the herd. And long were you yourself of the herd.
The voice of the herd still lingers in you, and when you shall say: ‘I no longer have a common conscience with them’, it shall be a grief and pain to you.
You call yourself free? I would hear of your master-thought, not of your escape from the yoke.
Are you a man that should escape from the yoke? Many have cast off all their values when they cast off their servitude.
Free from what? How does that concern Zarathustra? Let your eye answer me frankly: Free for what? ... a day will come when loneliness shall weary you, when your pride shall writhe and your courage gnash its teeth. In that day you shall cry: I am alone.
A day will come when you shall see your high things no more, and your low things all too near; you shall fear your exaltation as if it were a phantom. In that day you will cry: All is false.
There are emotions that seek to slay the solitary; if they don’t succeed they must perish themselves. Are you able to be a murderer?”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.”
Source: The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c
“He who seeks possessions for himself will never find them-until he begins to give of the abundance of possessions which he already has.”
“He who seeks praise must first surrender his freedom.”
“He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.”
“He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”
“He who seeks revenge digs two graves; he who walks away builds a palace of peace.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“He who seeks solutions outside of himself dreams. He who looks within himself awakens.”
Source: Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho
“He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.”
Source: Lilith
“He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.”
“He, who seeks to be eternal greed, shall be passed by the pauper in the street who calls him by his name as he searches for food amongst the scraps of society.”
“He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.”
“He who seeks to reach the moon must first build his own rocket!”
“He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.”
“He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.”
“He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton
“He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.”
Source: Moshe Safdie: Volume 1
“He who seeks truth should be of no country.”
“He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.”