Philosophy Quotes - Page 108

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.

Your smile has magic in it.

Be yourself, love yourself,be somebody then give yourself.

No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a tarantula considers itself beautiful

Before hurting others, feel the pain you will inflict on others.

The best knowledge is knowing yourself and your inner being.

Nature finds its peace in silence, forgiveness, and universal love.

Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.

O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all, but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening.

When the shit hits the fan, you really have to ask yourself why you weren't sitting on the toilet.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Psychologically speaking, far from being worthless, a system is indeed necessary, for any kind of human endeavor. A structure aids in the mind’s endeavor of learning. But the moment the mind becomes dependent on the system and starts trusting the system more than the internal faculties of the mind, the very element of education fades away from the system.

Either plan your life or get ready to get lost.

Slow down. Life is crossing the road.

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

Knowledge is the ultimate key to open the door to freedom.

Every beautiful thought adorns your life with beauty and love.

Follow the feelings of your heart, you will find the love.

To love yourself, love others.

Don't waste your energy in fighting the old. Use it to build the new.

Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

If I have to mourn for only ONE person,Then I choose EVERYONE.

It is never too late to love.

When all help is stopped, when your loved ones started doubting your competence, when failure seems almost confirmed, but no matter what, if you make one more attempt, that final step will fetch you the victory.

It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.

As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?

Karma is a balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds.YourWhich is audited by our creator and actions are based on what we accumulated in it.

Your state of consciousness defines your state of mind and your state of happiness.

I do not love money to chase it.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

Anger is the fire of ego which tries to burn the beauties of heart and soul.

Your dreams of today will create your future.

I'm sorry that I can't be like you.I guess that it's time that you accepted that and then we can both get on with life.

If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

Help humanity to help yourself. Love humanity to love yourself.

Only those exceptional at mimicking others feel at ease in the world.

Live as if life is for loving and giving.

I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart. Only in the moments of pain, do we begin to empathize with humankind. Only when you are lost, you will find new meaning. Float on.

To be as pure and perfect as a flower, you must think and dream like a flower.

His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting on the stump under the burden of his father's death and even the mortality inherent in the dying, wildly colored canopy of leaves, he somehow understood that life was only what one did every day.... Nothing was like anything else, including himself, and everything was changing all of the time. He knew he couldn't perceive the change because he was changing too, along with everything

You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!

System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.

If you love everyone, how could you find an enemy?

There is no reality other than perceptual reality.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

I am as abundant as the universe because I am a child of the universe.

I man is a prisoner of only his own mind.

Hope burns eternal in the human heart.

All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.

To reveal the beauty of life, let your tears wash away the shadows of darkness.

Education and wisdom will define your destination in life-- not wealth.