Khalil > Khalil's Quotes

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

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Music is the occult metaphysical exercise of a soul not knowing
that it philosophizes.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.”
― Pablo Casals

“Music, oh, how faint, how weak,
Language fades before thy spell!
Why should Feeling ever speak,
When thou canst breathe her soul so well?”
― Thomas Moore

“I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.”
― Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

“...there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have thought is so much time lost in learning to think for ourselves, we have more acquired knowledge and less vigor of mind. Our minds like our arms are accustomed to use tools for everything, and to do nothing for themselves.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
― Confucius

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
― Novalis

“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.”
― Mark Twain

“دع المساجد للــعباد تسكنها***وطف بنا حول خمار ليسقينا
ما قال ربك ويل للذين سكروا***ولكن قال ويل للمـصلينا”
― أبو نواس

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O Never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.”
― W. B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.”
― Howard Thurman