Philosophical Quotes - Page 10

Never look in the mirror when your stressed it’s contagious

Every person you meet in your life is your destiny. We alter the course of every life we touch, whether we realize it or not.

I think it's early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you're counting, you'll notice the earlys outnumber the lates.

I think, therefore I am?No, I simply am.I am. I am. I am.I will still be if I didn't think. In fact, it is only then that I would step into a different dimension of consciousness.Yes, I will still be if I didn't think. I will still be if I stopped breathing. I will still be because you still are. My words are written and you are receiving them. We are dancing. We are making love.And when you stop reading them, they will still be because nothing ever truly ceases to exist. There is not a thing that is not. Every thought, energy, and vibration is recycled. I am and I will continue to be because I manifest as the universe, therefore I will continue to manifest as the universe.

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.

People have no limits either in love or in hatred. But is it their fault? They despise us because they are afraid, for we remind them that getting crippled or sick might happen to anyone; or, perhaps, the true reason of their hatred lies much deeper inside, stemming from the hidden ugliness of their own souls?

I think nothing is good, I really think it is.

The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

How perfectly evil spirit and beauty can combine in one person, harmonically supplementing each other.

Honesty scares quite a lot of people.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.

Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away.

It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around.

When greed transcends rationale, morality becomes irrelevant.

And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse and disappear.

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

In the real world, in the grand scheme of life, this year is going to count for exactly nothing. These are the friendships that don't last and the choices that don't count. All those things we freak out about now, like who's going to be class president and are we going to win the game this weekend- there's going to be a time when we can't remember caring about them. In exactly three hundred and sixty five days from right now, wearing your letter jacket will make you look like the lamest of losers.

You can't see the world from somebody else's point of view and not be changed.

There can be no law of nature, no science,No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer,Simply sweep away, should it chose to.

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.

I clearly saw us from outside, like in a picture: we are not people, we are a road sign warning: “Stop and thank luck because such fate didn’t befall you as befell us, and only then keep going your way”.

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.

You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing

There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured by our experiences.

I think everything’s beautiful that is done through human’s heart and soul, that makes one’s inner world visible, that gives a chance to look at oneself from outside – everything is beautiful, even us.

If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.

Some people remember the sixties better than others do. Some weren't even there, some who were there were not really there, and some who were not really there were "really there".

It's in out-of-the-ordinary situations - especially situations of challenge or adversity - that the most important differences between people shine through.

I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them -- that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live.

When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

we live our lives from the "inside", from the vantage point of our own personal mini-cam on life. This gives us privileged access to what's going on inside our own heads. But sometimes we can be too close to ourselves to see us as we truly are. We lack perspective, objectivity. That's where friends can help. Friends can tell you when you're selfish or rude or making a total fool of yourself. Conversely, they can let you know when you're being kind or generous or need to lighten up on yourself.

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

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

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.

All our life we had been dreaming to get through every little hole into this beautiful and unfamiliar world where parents and children love each other not for something but in spite of everything, to plunge into this fairy world entirely, settle down and live there. So why didn’t I feel happy when it happened for real?

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

Probably, sooner or later every person founds oneself to be needless.

Truth is unoriginal.

I think happiness is a bit like a cake. If you have cake every single day of your life you'll get sick of it. If you're happy everyday, you'll get sick of being happy… That's a good saying actually. Happiness is like a cake. Have too much and you'll get sick of it.

Is there any life without any difficulty?

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.

In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.

Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting.

Intelligence is being intelligent enough to know you're not so intelligent as you intelligently once thought.

Collect memories, not things.Fill-up dreams, not pockets.Rise above your calling and be the person you always wanted to be.

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.

Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude and your day. Don’t give anyone that much power over your life.

. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish to commit suicide?’ If we say, ‘No I do not,’ as most of us would, it is because we have reasons for living, or at the very least real hope that we can find such reasons. Then the next question is: what are the reasons I personally have for saying ‘No’ to that question? The answer contains the meaning of my life.

In every journey comes a moment... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are... and who you want to be.

No man is an island, no man stands alone

Don't leave a trace on my shoulder. I am a burden to the world.

It’s not really outstanding when you’re standing outOutcry is the only outburst,if you can’t shout

The Dark Ages gradually ended six centuries ago with the Renaissance, which seeded new ideas for a different world. The Renaissance ideal dominated our culture until three centuries ago, from the 14th to the 18th century, when it was superseded by modernism. Not surprisingly, this human ideal has almost been forgotten in our culture. The Renaissance, literally "re-birth", was a revival and rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman culture following the decline of culture, trade, and technology during the Dark Ages.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?