Philosophy Quotes - Page 117

Those things you can buy have no value but have a price. Those things you cannot buy have value and are priceless.

My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.

Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.

You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

Anxiety and stress derive from fear and self-doubt.

Live this life as gently as you would breathe in the seaside air. Then release all those dreams and wonders to the water. Keep breathing until you’re inches from where you wish to be. Then exhale, remembering that gentle life you grew up from.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

When you are in doubt and lost, to find the way, chose love.

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

You live your life proportional to your love for life.

To be the person you always wanted to be, do the right things with love.

You travelamong the starswhilst I grovelupon this earth.Deep down I knew,it would takeseveral more lifetimesbefore I couldreach you.

Wherever you go, never forget to be the messenger and cause of happiness.

Wisdom is in silence.

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

Photography is never real, it’s merely one of many ways of telling the truth.

Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not… and just like this…

Smile to enjoy the beauties of life.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

Failure is the best teacher for future success.

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

Be a lover, nother else will matter.

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because you want to win their heart to create enduring peace.

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.

God is spirit. The spirit dwells in a body. We are the Holy temple.

A baby is a flower of hope, a song of eternity, and a promise of love and beauty of humanity.

To find the joy, ignite the light of love.

Think of, at the moment of dying, is there will be any enemy for you? None! Everyone will be the best friend. So win all your enemies with your divine love when you are living.

Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy.

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't.

To be kind to everyone is a divine beauty.

What initially began as a couple of pieces that fitted together from first dates, slowly expands with time and for a moment the puzzle actually looks like it will be realized. Heartbreak is when the puzzle is nearly finished and you suddenly realize that pieces are missing. Perhaps they were never in the box in the first place or perhaps they went missing along the way; regardless, the puzzle remains undone. You frantically search the box and your surroundings, desperately trying to find the missing pieces, anxiously looking to fill the void, but you search for what cannot be found.

Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience.... If there are enough zombies recruited into our world, I worry about the potential for a self-fulfilling prophecy. Maybe if people pretend they are not conscious or do not have free will - or that the cloud of online people is a person; if they pretend there is nothing special about the perspective of the individual - then perhaps we have the power to make it so. We might be able to collectively achieve antimagic. Humans are free. We can commmit suicide for the benefit of a Singularity. We can engineer our genes to better support an imaginary hive mind. We can make culture and journalism into second-rate activities and spend centuries remixing the detritus of the 1960s and other eras from before individual creativity went out of fashion. Or we can believe in ourselves. By chance, it might turn out we are real.

The storm only grew stronger. Walls of facets became flooded with cracks, the tumultuous gale escaped through the smallest crevice. With her arms spread wide and all her muscles hard and taunt, she broke free from the chrysalis, letting loose her new wings and that mighty storm. I thought it was over, but I was wrong. She spread her wings and sang her song. She rode upon the howl of wind until she was gone.

Happiness is just a smile away.

Let us be kind. Let us love to live in harmony, peace, and happiness.

Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.

Be a great writer when you write your life's song.

What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

We feel most alive when we are closest to death.

To make this world joyful, let your heart overflow with joy.

The greatest gift that you can give to me is not your treasures but your love.

A vacation is three times more work without the payment.

respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start to express your emotions to others, this is essential to a healthy wellbeing.

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

War will not be able to bring peace—only love and forgiveness can do that.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Come, come everyone, come with love, come with joy, come to my heart, there is always spring, roses always smiling, soul is always singing with joy in the light of love. I am waiting, are you coming. My heart is always ready to dance, always ready to love, always ready with a song.

1164At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.

Thought is my strength and love is my power.

We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.