May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law

Immanuel Kant

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken

Aristotle

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly

Plato

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Immanuel Kant

Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is

Friedrich Nietzsche

The soul never thinks without a picture

Aristotle

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue

Plato

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief

Immanuel Kant

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

Aristotle

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them

Plato

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably

Immanuel Kant

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

Friedrich Neitzsche

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way

Aristotle

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety

Plato

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another

Immanuel Kant

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night

Friedrich Nietzsche

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts

Aristotle

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet

Plato

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness

Immanuel Kant

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness depends upon ourselves

Aristotle

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education

Plato

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck

Immanuel Kant

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time

Friedrich Nietzsche

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference

Aristotle

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound

Plato

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Immanuel Kant

Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The secret to humor is surprise

Aristotle

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

Plato

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience

Immanuel Kant

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule

Friedrich Nietzsche

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival

Aristotle

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom

Plato

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end

Immanuel Kant

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time

Friedrich Nietzsche

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain

Aristotle

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die

Plato

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law

Immanuel Kant

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god

Aristotle

The greatest wealth is to live content with little

Plato

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on

Immanuel Kant

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope is a waking dream

Aristotle

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories

Plato

To be is to do

Immanuel Kant

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself

Friedrich Nietzsche

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst

Aristotle

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men

Plato

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so

Immanuel Kant

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends

Friedrich Nietzsche

The end of labor is to gain leisure

Aristotle

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way

Plato

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me

Immanuel Kant

There are no facts, only interpretations

Friedrich Nietzsche

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances

Aristotle

The measure of a man is what he does with power

Plato

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life

Immanuel Kant

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

Friedrich Nietzsche

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference

Aristotle

Man – a being in search of meaning

Plato

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play

Immanuel Kant

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing

Friedrich Nietzsche

We make war that we may live in peace

Aristotle

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike

Plato

The humiliating difference between laymen and clergymen must disappear, and equality spring from true liberty

Immanuel Kant

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star

Friedrich Nietzsche

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms

Aristotle

We are twice armed if we fight with faith

Plato

By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man

Immanuel Kant

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

The law is reason, free from passion

Aristotle

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return

Plato

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another

Immanuel Kant

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

Friedrich Nietzsche

The energy of the mind is the essence of life

Aristotle

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else

Plato

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose

Immanuel Kant

Without music, life would be a mistake

Friedrich Nietzsche

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead

Aristotle

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder

Plato

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay

Immanuel Kant

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire

Friedrich Nietzsche

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self

Aristotle

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands

Plato

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Immanuel Kant

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach

Aristotle

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance

Plato

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality

Immanuel Kant

What does your conscience say?-‘You should become the person you are’

Friedrich Nietzsche

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do

Aristotle

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers

Plato

Only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows

Immanuel Kant

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work

Aristotle

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant

Plato

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made

Immanuel Kant

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness

Friedrich Nietzsche

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal

Aristotle

Love is a serious mental disease

Plato

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them

Immanuel Kant

Man is the cruelest animal

Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend to all is a friend to none

Aristotle

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile

Plato

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first

Immanuel Kant

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no great genius without some touch of madness

Aristotle

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty

Plato

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness

Immanuel Kant

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god

Aristotle

Courage is knowing what not to fear

Plato

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

Immanuel Kant

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth

Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend to all is a friend to none

Aristotle

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself

Plato

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee

Immanuel Kant

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar

Friedrich Nietzsche

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance

Aristotle

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot

Plato

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty

Immanuel Kant

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone

Friedrich Nietzsche

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous

Aristotle

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws

Plato

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild…

Immanuel Kant

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you

Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others

Aristotle

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet

Plato

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person

Immanuel Kant

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies

Aristotle

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life

Immanuel Kant

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently

Friedrich Nietzsche

Well begun is half done

Aristotle

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Plato

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination

Immanuel Kant

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind

Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others

Aristotle

The beginning is the most important part of the work

Plato

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him

Immanuel Kant

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too

Friedrich Nietzsche

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet

Aristotle

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light

Plato

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced

Immanuel Kant

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly

Friedrich Nietzsche

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy

Aristotle

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors

Plato

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals

Immanuel Kant

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you

Friedrich Nietzsche

Quality is not an act, it is a habit

Aristotle

The beginning is the most important part of the work

Plato

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason

Immanuel Kant

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages

Friedrich Nietzsche

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet

Aristotle

They certainly give very strange names to diseases

Plato

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else

Immanuel Kant

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed

Friedrich Nietzsche

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor

Aristotle

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something

Plato

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without

Immanuel Kant

That which does not kill us makes us stronger

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tidak bisa antri dan rebutan?
1. Pernah miskin dan tidak berkecukupan.
2. Khawatir/takut tidak kebagian.
3. Yang kuat (kuasa atau uang), selalu main serobot.
Kebiasaan atau budaya?

Ramelan

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people

Socrates

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change

Socrates