Philosophical Musings Quotes

A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the responsibilities that come naturally about when deeply immersed in family and community affairs. Directing their attention outward, assisting other people in their troubled times, while denying themselves the indulgence of self-absorption frees a person’s bidding mind from a jumble of discordant thoughts, wants, and unholy bequests.

Live joyfully this life. Once gone, who knows if we ever get it back. Atheists think we do not. Mystics say you will. Either way, chill.

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world

I had an enemy - myself. Getting rid of the ego-self, in came the Self. Now, here, there, everywhere is nothing else. Just One Self.

Sleep like you can never be deadDream as if you have a soul inside your head

We each possess the ability creatively to respond to the ontological mystery of our existence.

Only that 'holy' book which teaches you to love all beings - animals or human things - read. Another one, idiots do, You let go, God speed.

Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.

Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.

A journey inward may end in defeatFor life as we know it was made by machines

The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it's content can perpetually change with your perception.

May your eyes be the eyes of truthAnd guided from deception

Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.

Life is too short to bullshit.

Were I but perfectly normal, I would just not be.

Sometimes the answer is in the question.

A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence -rassool jibraeel snyman

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

If you lived a good life, you either lived to save or died to save… that which must be saved and kept. Your life would never be meaningless. Not even for a moment.

All is a forever.

I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it.

No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?

Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

Come on, let your silly egotistical self be gone! And then only THAT WHICH IS will be shown.

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born

I do not want to sound cynical or condescending, but your lips are moving, your mind unbending.

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.

Remember, you are as dispensable as the most indispensable king of kings, the mighty lord of silly worldly men.

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.

I have begun to wonder where I came from. The person I am now, this fumbling, stumbling supplicant... was I built on the foundations of my old life, or did I rise from the grave a blank state? How much of me is inherited, and how much is my own creation? Questions that were once just idle musings have begun to feel strangely urgent. Am I firmly rooted to what came before? Or can I choose to deviate?

Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.

i closed my eyes and i loved you ... dreams are such beautiful things

Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.

Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.

Ambition soars and also slithers

Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world - never to your own damn, silly stupid self.

Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.

Your greatest adventure is written inside of you

The people who strive for failure are encouraged by those that failed before them. To do the same

But that is the way of life, and that was but one of the first times, among no few to come, that I was taught a useful lesson about how appearances trump truth, and how villains hide their vices behind masks of piety, honour, and decency. And that to denounce evildoers without proof, attack them with weapons, trust blindly in reason or justice, is often the fastest road toward one's own perdition, while the scoundrels who use influence or money as a shield remained untouched.

Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools

If you don’t know history,you don’t know anything.”Edward Johnston

It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless

D'you know, Georgie," he said, settling back comfortably in the deep grass, that there song you've been a-singin' at all day - it ain't much of a song and it ain't much of a tune, but there's real good *sense* to it, though you probably don't know it. And I'll tell you why - because there always *is* new Folks comin', that's why. There's always new Folks comin' and always new times comin'.

We may be pilgrims passing through this world, but let's not be grim-pills in the process!

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]

I blame God for all the good things that happened in my life to spite him I will be good to others

Little people make tall claims. As being this-that avatar or messiah. Some even say they're God. Well, if they are, I'm their grand-pop.

Were a million people to believe in bullshit, it yet is just bull crap.

But what's in a name? We have named all of the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have names of their own. What a nerve!

If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.

Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life.

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind

Truth respects no ism.

Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.

They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?