“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
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Gautama Buddha 121
philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563–-483 BCRelated quotes
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
“As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.”
With the century, vol. 5
II–II, q. 35, art. 4, ad. 2
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
“A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.”
Source: God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics
“I cannot live without books.”
Letter to John Adams (10 June 1815)
1810s
“One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.”
Source: The Story of My Life (1932), Ch. 1 "Before The Beginning"
Context: One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life. As one journeys along he gains experiences and even some ideas. Accumulated opinions and philosophy may be more important to others than the bare facts about how he lived, so my ambition is not so much to relate the occurrences as to record the ideas that life has forced me to accept; and, after all, thoughts, impressions and feelings are really life itself. I should like to think that these reflections might make existence a trifle easier for some of those who may chance to read this story.
Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 5