Philosophical Quotes - Page 4

We don't think. We think we think.

You have to set somebody free for them to return

Sometimes it feels like you and I are at the movie theater, sitting next to each other and watching the same movie. People say something, argue incessantly, even fight, but this is all somewhere far away, on the other side of the screen, and we are just passive onlookers unable to affect the course of events.

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking to a daily ritual and becoming absorbed in something useful. When the war is over, even the greatest warriors do not exult. They go back to their garden or kitchen or library -- or school -- and resume life.(as said by Mrs. Pearson)

Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten.

I am smart because I know I nothing.

There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by encountering the world, culling knowledge from all available resources, and thinking reverently about life.

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.

Never condemn yourself. Always affirm positive words into your life.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property in which our contemporary government of criminals aspires to plunder from our compatriots by the means of unconstitutional surveillance.

Imprisoned peace sets the war free

When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top

Worry notif you are in darknessand the void sucks you in further.This is not the place we go to die.It’s where we are bornand our stories begin.

The more you give the less your poor

A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.

Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

Well, it is in fact possible to put things behind you, Rakel. The art of dealing with ghosts is to dare to look at them long and hard until you know that is what they are. Ghosts. Lifeless, powerless ghosts.

A Pause tends the existence of any definition to its end.

How do I know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.

Only people are worth dying for.

Better to have too much time to manage, than too much money that manages all your time

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

The more you read the Bible, the more transform your life will be.

But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness.

I thought you might appreciate this.....“Excerpt from my lecture Sunday February 22, 2015 at Soul-Esteem Center10 Commandments - God knew when he gave us choice some would make the wrong choices, but God wanted his creation, man, to have free will and felt later it necessary to write the 10 Commandants as a reminder of how God wanted his creations to perform. The 10 Commandants contain 5 positives and five negatives”― I. Alan Appt, The Strength in Knowingtags: motivational, philosophy, psychology, self-helpPeace to all,Alan Appt

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change

Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are

Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor.

Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.

If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information.

We are all time travelers, we just don't know it yet.The only problem is that we only have a one way ticket, destination: FUTURE.

Would he as well neglect the perishing person, wouldn’t he help to get up, would he turn away? I think I know the answer is obvious. He was flying so high above each of us that after falling down he got below everybody else. To be precise, he was simply knocked down. And we, none of us, just did nothing. Thus, with everybody’s silent acquiescence, the best of us were eliminated in order to let others decay.

Make mistakes, a thousand of them because we are only humans.Never repeat your mistakes because we are humans.

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact.

When the loneliest place on earth is in your mind, move out!

--perhaps a soul is what you have spent your life making, not a piece of metaphysical equipment shipped ready-made from the factory, another myth like original sin, which you were outfitted with at birth and could somehow lose, like men high and low sometimes lost their humanity--

It meant leading my meta-life. Meta-life is the opposite of living in the moment. It 's the syndrome of simultaneously having an experience and being an observer commenting on and questioning the experience. By observing something, you change it, sometimes for the better, but in my experience, usually for the worse. You know you re in the meta-life when you 're critiquing an experience while you 're having it ( This is fun but it would be more fun if . . . ), trying to talk yourself into happiness because you should feel it ( It 's a beautiful day, and all I really need to be happy are fresh air and sunshine ), or worrying that you re not getting any closer to the "Big Important Things" ( Sure, this is a great date, but what are the odds this guy would ever marry someone like me? ).

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes the memory remains: the awareness of the gazelle, the instinct of the antelope. The wind whispers through the grass. A shadow flits between the trees. And up speaks the little voice that goes. Shhhh, it's close now. Close.

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time

Do a bit research before you plan.

This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and justice is the spirit of God.

I feel more human when I compare the cuteness of a lizard to a newborn child's sweetness. Both are God's creations filled with precious innocence

If you observe nature daily, it brings harmony with you and God.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.

We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process.

One of the protestor's sign catches my eye. HOMISEXUALITY IS THE DEVIL'S WORK, it says. And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

Am Anfang war Gott? It may have been true, but it was not germane.

It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

Life is like a box of cookies: it's good while it lasts, but before you know it, it's gone.

Sometimes, one needs another pair of eyes to see things clearly.

we live best when we live for a cause greater than ourselves

You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey