Philosophy Quotes - Page 111

Your voice is so mellifluous that I can listen to you forever.

It's not a matter of whether you want happiness. We all need peace, love, and happiness. But, if you fail to nurture your spirit, by absorbing all things good and giving attention to the matters of your heart, it will be hard to obtain. It must radiate from inside of you. Then, flow outwardly penetrating everyone around you.

By letting go we become free to accept what is new.

We are fed ideas in small sound bites that are really just the conclusions of particular beliefs. We do not examine what underpins these sound bites. If the sound bites are presented by a source we are accustomed to accepting as true, there is a danger we will assimilate the conclusion without knowing, or caring, whether it is based on solid arguments and assumptions.

A kite only flies if it’s tethered.

When you want something and you don’t have it, it may be a cause of stress to you. However, if we reflect on how we came to have things that were not there originally, we can be excited, delighted, and grateful that we want something even before we have it. Seen from this perspective, wanting something—or more specifically, being able to want something while it is not there yet—is already a gift in itself. !is is why we offer gratitude.

I am what I am; sacred soul, spirit and body.

In reality, what we call spirit is our universal consciousness.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

How much you are able to learn is determined by how much you are involved, how much you participate, and how many actions you take.

We have to consider that a man who has been under such enormous mental pressure for such a long time is naturally in some danger after his liberation, especially since the pressure was released quite suddenly. This danger (in the sense of psychological hygiene) is the psychological counterpart of the bends. Just as the physical health of the caisson worker would be endangered if he left his diver's chamber suddenly (where he is under enormous atmospheric pressure), so the man who has suddenly been liberated from mental pressure can suffer damage to his moral and spiritual health.

Mankind has two immense problems, they forget to use logic and begin at the root of each trouble.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Weather is a purely personal matter. There is no such thing as a climate that is cold or hot, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. People take it upon themselves to create a fantasy in their imagination and call it weather. There's only one climate in the world, but the message that nature sends is interpreted according to strictly personal, non-transferable rules.

Being scared to fail inspires creativity; heartbreak inspires creativity; being hurt by others inspires creativity; being lost inspires creativity. Your masterpiece isn’t something that you will have made in the colorful, it is understood in the darkness. Use the anxiety within and let it serve you.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.

Always stay one step a head, unless you’re already there

Every flower is telling you the secrets of life; to understand, you have to listen to them with your heart.

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. … So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth. The Earth is a sphere. It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.

When you're in love, the sun never stops shining.

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.

Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Criticism addressed to a person can only be of benefit if it was said in the right way and at the right time.

When you can love your enemy unconditionally, that is the practice of divine love.

Those who are loving become beloved.

Folks in Irihs might not be as welcoming as they were here. Resentment lingers.''So we're going to be in danger.''No more than any other day of your life.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

When you stand on top of that mountain and you look out, you will know that you will never again look back.

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.

Don't wait for a reason to feel the joy. Life is for joy.

Don’t blame other people for your problems. Only you can do anything about your problems. Inspect, reflect, realize, and then find the cure. No one can do it for you.

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

Never lose hope. Never forget the power of intentions and desires.

It is easy to create a memory, but it is almost impossible to forget.

Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency.

You have to walk with the Creator to find your soul.

Life is an illusion. Don’t forget to enjoy the magnificence of magic.

Yoga may teach you how to reveal your inner joy and inner beauties that beautify this world.

A revived spirit, a renewed soul.

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

A deep consideration of the essence of knowledge should reveal how knowledge corresponds to the truth.

So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?

War never can bring peace; only understanding, love, kindness and compassion can do that.

No one can go back and correct his mistakes, but everyone can go forward and change their thoughts and perceptions.

Look at this leaf. When you’re standing close to it you can see every single detail of the leaf. You may think that it’s important to see things, like this leaf, up close but that is an incorrect notion because it is also important to view things from afar. That’s why it is necessary to look at all perspectives of an issue or of an object. --The Unnamed Samurai (Chapter 5)

To most anarchists, the advocacy of freedom on Earth while bowing to a heavenly tyrant (no matter how imaginary) seems an insupportable contradiction.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you.Scream, and everyone ignores you.

...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,

For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them.

Life is ephemeral like the journey of a dew drop. We must not forget to glitter.

You may not lead by ordering, but you may lead by showing possibilities and the beauty of success.

What did the Romans say? “De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason.

True friendship doesn't include jealousy.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what I have.

You can take the entire world of physics with all of its macrocosm and microcosm, its quantum mechanics and nuclear physics and reduce it to one word: energy. It's all energy. Scientists say that if you can't measure it, weight it, or see it, it doesn't exist. Well, no one has ever seen energy. We can see its effects, but not "it.

To begin a new journey is never easy, but we have to start somewhere to reach a new destination.

I am deeply in love with the world and its contents. My heartaches when I see any suffering so kindness and altruism is my ultimate way of life.