Top 70 Giannis Delimitsos Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Ideologies are sacred in normal times. But when chaos begins to reign, or when a radical change of the person’s status occurs, ideologies may be abandoned or created in a second.”

— Giannis Delimitsos

2. “Goodness is a powerful magnet. Goodness attracts goodness. The surest way to have good people around you is to be a good person yourself.”

— Giannis Delimitsos

3. “Before you think you are surrounded by idiots, make sure that you don’t suffer from narcissism.”

— Giannis Delimitsos

4. “True friendship is the greatest wealth man can possess and one of his rarest and most valuable assets.”

— Giannis Delimitsos

5. “A brief yet reflective walking through a cemetery is enough to teach us more than all the philosophy of the world during a lifetime.”

— Giannis Delimitsos

6. “When I arrive to a new place, it is no longer the place it was before my arrival. And I am not the same person either. I change it and it changes me on the spot. And together we give the world a slightly different face.”

— Giannis Delimitsos

7. “The highest form of laughter is the laughter of understanding. When we realize that there is no real, terminal, universal or personal goal to be achieved, a huge burden is lifted from our hearts. Laughing at the world and at ourselves seems then the only rational course we can take. And the only serious.”

— Giannis Delimitsos

8. “A good proverb is often the marriage of a Truth to an Enchantment, where Humor is the groomsman and Irony the priest.”

— Giannis Delimitsos

9. “Every opinion, every belief and even every firm conviction and certainty is a leap of faith. We just have to sort out the useful ones.”

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10. “I can imagine the message from the billions of people who have walked the Earth, echoing from beyond the grave. It would be crystal clear for those who would be eager to listen: “live here and now in the Present, enjoy every big and every little moment, love and cherish with every beat of your heart, live passionately and die bravely!”

— Giannis Delimitsos

11. “The glory of the Ideal is our guide for a decent approximation of It.”

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12. “By speaking with courtesy and respect, you are offering a wonderful gift to yourself, a useful embarrassment to the unkind, and a good example to bystanders.”

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13. “Science and Metaphysics show us part of what “is”. Logic and Epistemology help us interpret this part and understand how much of it we can really know. And finally, Ethics teaches us how to embrace this knowledge and how to cherry-pick only those things that will give us endurance and contentment in the long run, avoiding those that may keep our hearts buried in the ground; how to live well and decently and how to help the society function properly.”

— Giannis Delimitsos

14. “There is goodness in every woman, in every man. Some have not learned to use it yet. A part of them never will. Unfortunately, they lack the ways or the means to display it to the world.”

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15. “It is a token of a healthy spirit to freely lament your loss and hold dearly the pain and sorrow that come with it, being at the same time careful not to cling to the past, let alone mentally live in the past. The sorrow and the pain are the unerring proofs that what you have lived was strong and real, and that nothing was in vain!”

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16. “The world, and we as a part thereof, are the carnival mask on the face of Nonbeing.”

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17. “The only real freedom the human animal can achieve is the release from meanings. If we don’t have anywhere in particular to go, we can never be lost; if we have nothing to prove, we can never fail.”

— Giannis Delimitsos

18. “The human existence is an audacious chaos disturbing the Order of Cosmos.”

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19. “The majority of people live their lives under two complementary conditions simultaneously: confined to prisons they don’t know they exist and confined to prisons they think they exist.”

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20. “Activity and creativity are, by and large, good for man’s soul. But remember that you don’t have to do something every single day, to be busy every single second. Not even meditation or the like. Sometimes your inner self just wants to sit, to breathe, to enjoy; to beautifully exist. Because by beautifully existing, you have already done more than enough!”

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21. “What is my personal history if not the heroic narrative created by myself in order to inform myself about who myself is, assisted by my tactically biased and fickle memory?”

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22. “The modern man adores individualism as long as he has freedom, health, safety and wealth, but when he loses one of them turns to the state and to others demanding compensation and support.”

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23. “There must be a difference between a Sisyphus who hurries to lift the boulder, despite knowing that it’s going to roll down again and a Sisyphus who – fully aware of this fact – prefers to take a nap or play with his kids before the next lifting.”

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24. “Wisdom is not to know everything, but to know enough in order to stop taking yourself and the world too seriously. Wisdom could be the last and eternal Laughter!”

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25. “In a world of ceaseless labor, we are components of the Engine. Eternally struggling, pushing a Sisyphean Boulder in vain. Illusions are the keys that unlock the Doors and keep us moving on.”

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26. “Many ask: “Why are we so insincere, why are we so hypocrites?”. Well, it is because this is how human nature works. If there was a time and a place where human beings were 100% of the time honest, who always said what they had in mind and who didn’t care to cover their shortcomings by displaying a better persona than the “real” one, it is long since gone, wiped out from the relentless force of natural selection.”

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27. “Failures are like alarm clocks. Alarm clocks wake us up from our dream and remind us that we have to go to work. Failures wake us up from our dream and remind us that we have to live as we really are; mortals and fallible.”

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28. “When you stay silent, you listen. When you listen, you learn. When you learn, you know. When you know, you can understand. And when you understand, you may forgive.”

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29. “The naive thinks that all wisdom lies within and no one can teach him. The wise became wise, because he accepted his nescience and opened his eyes to see the Wisdom and the Beauty around him.”

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30. “What we call happiness and unhappiness are no more than feelings floating over the innermost halls of the soul; they are pure emotional and mental states, and thus they can never be fake, regardless of the veracity or falsity of the condition that caused them.”

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31. “We learn the world to better learn ourselves. And the better we know ourselves, the more we know the world.”

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32. “I can not learn Philosophy and I can not take a glimpse of Wisdom all alone and by myself. All together we philosophize, because this is the best way to do it; nay, this is the only way to do it. Of course, other thinkers cannot teach me what I already know, but they can help me unlearn what I thought I knew or see what I haven’t seen clearly yet. As a solitary thinker, I would be a mere listener of the echo of my convictions.”

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33. “If you consider your life to be happy and successful, then it is exactly so. If you view your life as unhappy or as a failure, then you are right about that. Fortunately or unfortunately, you can never be wrong on this matter.”

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34. “Coming face to face with Ugliness can be a misfortune or a blessing. We can imitate it and be one with it; or we can feel repugnance and appreciate the Beauty once and for all!”

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35. “To insist that we always prefer reality over delusion is to deny reality and indulge in delusion. Nature’s process of Evolution “wants” its beloved children alive, productive and successful, regardless of what is true or false, reality or dream.”

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36. “Eternity before and after us renders every painful effort for victory over other people absurd, almost ludicrous.”

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37. “Another good thing that philosophy offers us is the invigorating company of the great dead of the past, while – at the same time – it keeps us away from the soulless and trifling affairs of the alive ones.”

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38. “On a cosmic scale, it seems that the life of a single plant or animal is completely insignificant. Then, on the same scale, I also am insignificant; and you, too. In fact, everyone and everything is insignificant, and therefore no one and nothing is insignificant.”

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39. “Even the great man’s legacy is a momentary postponement of the elimination of the memory of him, at best until the Red Giant devours poor Gaia, or – most probably – until humanity finds a way to become extinct in a previous stage.”

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40. “Our punishment for feeling hatred is the feeling of hatred.”

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41. “When we get a new idea – or remember an old one – and we cling to it and try to spread it with evangelical zeal, then we no longer have control over it. In fact, it’s the idea itself that possesses us and becomes our new master. And we end up blindly serving the idea and forgetting the cause that brought it to us in the first place.”

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42. “The idea that we are the persistent seekers of the truth and nothing but the truth, and that this truth can save us or set us free is one of the strongest and most pervasive fallacies in our species through the millenia.”

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43. “Every thought, every word, every deed, every laugh, every cry, every pleasure, every lie. Everything is a part of our relentless attempt to cope with the fact of our very mortality.”

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44. “Every time I begin to feel overconfident about a theory or an idea of mine, an underlying, somewhat uneasy feeling invariably visits me.”

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45. “How do you understand that you have attained a healthy, inner peace and tranquillity? When nothing can make you angry or bring you bitter resentment, while your desire to get rid of the various evils is not at all diminished.”

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46. “Hatred is the mask of the inept.”

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47. “In Love we fall and in God we trust. The two have something special in common: people adore both conditions despite their irrationality or, to be more precise, because of their irrationality. For what is irrational keeps us often effectively in distance from the pure knowledge and perception of things. A purity that, exactly as pure heroin, can put us in grave danger, especially in high doses.”

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48. “The day you’ll start craving for a savior to deliver you is the day you’ll welcome any tyrant into your soul. Freedom is the game of the unsaved and the unsavable.”

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49. “All these little things that delight us and are not indispensable for a living; only these are worth living for. A meaning hiding in the superfluous!”

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50. “We are all capable of foolishness, it’s just that we have a different area of expertise.”

— Giannis Delimitsos