Quotes About Sage

L'éphémère est une divinité polymorphe ainsi que son nom. Sur ces trois pieds qui sonnent comme une légende peuplée d'yeux de farfadets, mon ami Robert Desnos, ce singulier sage moderne, qui a des navires étranges dans chaque pli de sa cervelle, s'est longuement penché, cherchant par l'échelle de soie philologique le sens de ce mot fertile mirages.

So it is told of the disciple who confessed to the Sage, "I try so hard to atone. I try to wrestle with temptation. I try but I do not succeed. I remain mired in the mud of transgression. Help me to extricate myself from sin and to truly repent." The Sage answered, "Perhaps, my dear friend, you are thinking only of yourself. How about forgetting yourself and thinking of the world?" (Martin Buber, Hasidism and Modern Man, p. 162).

once inserted into the cosmos, once his individual life is set going in harmony with the cosmic order, the wise man understands that we simple mortals are merely a fragment of this whole, an atom of eternity, so to speak, one element of a totality that cannot disappear. So that, ultimately, for the sage, death ceases to be truly real. In a nutshell, death is but a passage from one state to another—and, considered as such, it should no longer hold any terrors for us.

SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

The Truly SAGE System, or Toward a Man-Machine System for Thinking

For what has made the sage or poet write but the fair paradise of Nature's light?

Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest Monarchies his look Drew audience and attention still as Night Or Summers Noon-tide air while thus he spake.

There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, The few, whom genius gave to shine Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime.

Ordinary people knock on doors, warriors break them down, but sages enter through the window.

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!

H.L. Mencken – journalist, beer-drinker and sage – said that for every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong. I share his mistrust for the obvious.

followers of Tao meld the way of the warrior and the sage. They want the courage and preparedness of the fighter, the luminous perception of the wise.

Universal love is really the way of the sage-kings. It is what gives peace to the rulers and sustenance to the people

To my enemies I appear like a madman, to my admirers like a sage and to those who do not know me, I simply appear like a stranger in front of their senses.

But the idea that Stoics don't have emotional skin in the game is a misreading of ancient Stoicism. The Stoics were the most nuanced of early emotion theorists, detailing the layered complexity of emotional life. They describe "proto-emotions" that we feel and can't control, and even a sage isn't impugned for experiencing these starts and startles.

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show,Unerring wisdom never dwelt below;Folly in all of every age we see,The only difference lies in the degree.

A peace that blacked yer eye,' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.' He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. "The words of a sage," he says, "in the voice of a hick.

The ideal of Taoism was to live in harmony with the Tao and to cultivate a simple and frugal life, avoiding unnecessary action: "Being one with nature, he [the sage] is in accord with the Tao.

I will sing from the sage's chair by the Norn's sacred spring; I watched and listened, I looked and thought about the words of the wise when they talked of runes and what they reveal at the High One's hall, in the High One's hall— here is what I heard… HÁVAMÁL (SAYINGS OF THE HIGH ONE), POEMS OF THE "ELDER EDDA

Any desert land that will grow big sage will produce more fortunes thatn most gold mines -- if you can only get the water.