Philosophical Quotes - Page 12

Enjoy this moment. The ultimate fulfilment of the dream will not come close to the dream. Enjoy it

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.

There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986

The way we live, decides the meaning of life.And the way we die, tells how much meaningful we made it.

Time plays no role in the life of one man—the subtle consciousness of it floating past me is more than enough. Years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds—what does it matter? Floating by, it rubs against my skin, face, and hair—wearing me down, yet polishing me all the while. Time is like fine grains of sand in a desert storm. At first, you don’t pay any attention to it, but the more it hits you in the face, the more aware of it you become, the more annoying it gets until, one day, you find yourself suffocating. The weight of it eventually bends your spine, until you are crawling on your hands and knees, unable to stand straight. Then comes the time to crawl back into the womb, crawl inside and wait for rebirth.

Hiding things is the most foolish thing that annihilates correlation.

Doing something once can be addicting. Doing it twice is admitting it.

You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

Men are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality, and sometimes one manifests itself, sometimes another, and the man often becomes unlike himself, while still remaining the same man.

At the heart of all of mankind’s achievements is imagination.

I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red

Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.

What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.

Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.'She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall.

All his life he would cherish the memory of an endless caravan of camels alongside the railway line, the laden beasts plodding patiently through the snow, ignoring the twentieth century as it hurtled past them in a clash of iron and a shriek of steam.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

The truth about life is complicated, indefensible and embarrassing.

I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.

If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter.

Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.

There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you.

After having grown up surrounded by so much manufactured beauty, Amara had come to want something different. Something that wasn't necessarily beautiful. Something imperfect, interesting, and perhaps even ugly.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Life doesn't revolve around youIt revolves around those you love

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.

We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge enshadowed him where he crouched at his trade but he was a coldforger who worked with hammer and die, perhaps under some indictment and an exile from men's fires, hammering out like his own conjectural destiny all through the night of his becoming some coinage for a dawn that would not be. It is this false moneyer with his gravers and burins who seeks favor with the judge and he is at contriving from cold slag brute in the crucible a face that will pass, an image that will render this residual specie current in the markets where men barter. Of this is the judge judge and the night does not end.

Walk in the light while you have the light.

We've reached a point in human history where higher education no longer works. As a result of technology, higher education in its traditional college setting no longer works. It will never be effective or progressive enough to keep up with the growing needs of employers who look to college institutions for their future employees.I can appreciate the good intent the college system set out to achieve. For previous generations, the formula actually worked. Students enrolled into universities that were affordable, they gained marketable skills and they earned good jobs. Since there was a proven track record of success, parents instilled the value of college in their children thinking they would achieve the same success story they did, but unfortunately Wall Street was watching. Wall Street, the federal government and the college system ganged up and skyrocketed the cost of tuition to record highs. This was easy to do because not only did they have posters blanketing high schools showing kids what a loser they would be if they didn't go to college, they also had Mom and Dad at home telling them the same thing.This system - spending 4+ years pursuing a college education when the world is changing at the speed of light - no longer works and it's not fixable. We now have the biggest employer's market in human history, where employers have their pick of the litter, and because of this employees will get paid less and less and benefits will continue to erode.

Perhaps it is a good thing that we don't live long enough to realize how redundant things seem :)

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

In the game of life;Sometimes we win,Sometimes we loss,Either ways, we should always keep playing.

I am doubtful myself about the undertaking. Part of the attraction of the L.R. is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist. To go there is to destroy the magic, unless new unattainable vistas are again revealed. Also many of the older legends are purely 'mythological', and nearly all are grim and tragic: a long account of the disasters that destroyed the beauty of the Ancient World, from the darkening of Valinor to the Downfall of Numenor and the flight of Elendil.

Are you dying?"Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.

That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.''No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

We all have that divine moment, when our lives are transformed by the knowledge of the truth.

How we handle adversity determines the chances if we either fall or rise.

Best that all mischief be undertaken behind a squeaky door

In Unity we can be enslaved, and in Unity we can also come together as individuals." Old Woman

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.

Reality is such an elusive concept.

At the moment you think all is lost, the future remains.

Truly, great is pride and blindness, so that the blood dripping from the scaffold would be called justice. - Epigraph to the 5'th chapter

It is common to represent a title, but inspiring to represent a purpose.