Philosophy Quotes - Page 113

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

You may not be a great success when you are too busy with life and forget to love.

Kindness has a power to change.

Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.

Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.

Life is magnificent and vivacious, but it is also fugacious.

Every human being has to build a secret temple in his soul where he can shelter himself and find himself again and again.

Ultimately, a woman’s nature loves the desire to be desired, a passionate and uncontrollable desire. Sometimes it comes with a sacrifice or greater investment than usual.

Sometimes by failing we find a better opportunity to win.

Open all windows and let love come in.

The highest form of education teaches us to find the truth by searching with love, harmony, and gratitude.

What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?

When you are able to love yourself deeply, you can be kind to others.

Don't let anything disturb your inner peace and tranquilly.

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

Win hatred with love, enemies with friendship, and cruelty with kindness.

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.

Light of my heart is my spirit through which I created my universe,and I see the beauty of my sun, my moon and my dazzling stars.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual system in which the undertaking is set. That is an empirical job for cognitive science and cognitive semantics. ... Unless this job is done, we will not know whether the answers philosophers give to their questions are a function of the conceptualization built into the questions themselves.

Every person may not be great, but there is some greatness in every person.

Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated.

In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.

Smile, just because you're alive and enjoying the magic of life.

I never speak in silence.

I am an optimist, I always hope for the best.

Animals are irrational men

With true love you can win one person, with true passion you can win the world.

If you love what you do, it isn't your job, it is your love affair.

Kindness is the best style that you can wear anytime and anywhere.

Let love, joy, hope and peace be the guiding lights during this holiday season.

The universe is flux, life is opinion.

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the rings of Saturn are. But here we live and move; we wander up and down the banks of the creek, we ride a railway through the Alps, and the landscape shifts and changes. Were the earth smooth, our brains would be smooth as well; we would wake, blink, walk two steps to get the whole picture and lapse into dreamless sleep. Because we are living people, and because we are on the receiving end of beauty, another element necessarily enters the question. The texture of space is a condition of time. Time is the warp and matter the weft of woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurtling shuttle…tWhat I want to do, then, is add time to the texture, paint the landscape on an unrolling scroll, and set the giant relief globe spinning on it stand.

The warrior of the night intercedes for the people.

Without an abundance of hope and happiness, it will be difficult to accumulate an abundance of wealth.

Although at times you might want to detract from the path, realize that how you treat yourself becomes the foundation as to how you treat others; although we may want to resort to violence in words during conflict, understand that how you speak to others becomes the basis of how you speak to yourself; although we may want to give up; do not be fooled in the idea that ease and comfort is where your true path lies.

The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation, which holds between language and the world.To all of them the logical structure is common.(Like the two youths, their two horses and their lilies in the story. They are all in a certain sense one.)

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

Love is the beauty, the flower, the fragrance, and the attractive force of our soul.

Whenever a soul leaves the body a void is felt across the world..

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Don’t be afraid to change. Without change, there is no life.

The best way to relieve stress is to trust yourself.

A thought, no matter how small and forgotten, always has an eternal impact on the Cosmos. Most times, we can only see the material and just about beyond the immediate, but if we could trace this thought through all Creation... well, it would be a whole universe in itself.

If it’s taking to long to get up the career ladder, get a career lift.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people’s fires. Let is stop by being kind and forgiving like water.

The only measurement I understand is perfection.

Imagination is a reality.

Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind.

Touch my heart, feel my love, don't look at me.

Inspiration comes from not only within ourselves, but also from watching life around us.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.

Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be!

There exists a microscopic breed of brain beetle, commonly known as an ‘idea’. An idea desires only one thing: To catch the perfect brain wave.