Philosophy Quotes - Page 129

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.

Don't try to hurt anyone, you will not succeed because you can hurt only yourself.

Be a success but never forget to be kind. Success has no meaning if your heart is empty of kindness.

Passion lights the fire in every soul.

The best way to create a better future is to do your best at this very moment.

If you want to change the world, change your perception and awareness. The world will change.

Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create miracles.

An alternative — and better — definition of reality can be found by naming some of its components: air, sunlight, wind, water, the motion of waves, the patterns of clouds before a coming storm. These elements, unlike 20th-century office routines, have been here since before life appeared on this planet, and they will continue long after office routines are gone. They are understood by everyone, not just a small segment of a highly advanced society. When considered on purely logical grounds, they are more real than the extremely transitory lifestyles of the modern civilization the depressed ones want to return to.If this is so, then it follows that those who see sailing as an escape from reality have their understanding of sailing and reality backward. Sailing is not an escape, but a return to and a confrontation of a reality from which modern civilization is itself an escape. For centuries, man suffered from the reality of an Earth that was too dark or too hot or too cold for his comfort, and to escape this he invented complex systems of lighting, heating and air conditioning.Sailing rejects these and returns to the old realities of dark and heat and cold. Modern civilization has found radio, television, movies, nightclubs and a huge variety of mechanized entertainment to titillate our senses and help us escape from the apparent boredom of the Earth and the Sun, the wind and the stars. Sailing returns to these ancient realities.

Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.

Poetry is seeing everything when there is only one thing. It is looking at a rose but seeing the stars, moons, seas, and trees. It is a truth beyond logic, an experience beyond thought. Poetry is the Earth pausing on its axis in order to manifest itself as a rose.

If you are alive, then you have a reason to smile.

A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.

The responsibility of any science, any pure pursuit, is ultimately to itself, and on this point physics, philosophy, and poetry unite with Satan in their determination not to serve. Any end is higher than utility, when ends are up.

For success, have a laser-like, purpose-oriented focus, and persistently go toward it.

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.

Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

Jesus recognized that God within him and became Christ - so did Siddhartha Gautama and became Buddha - so did I - and so can you.

Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?

Fill yourself with love and happiness, but never give up the desire to love more.

If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice…It demands that he starts, not with a standard of value, but with a standard of evil, which is himself, by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not. A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an isolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality. If man is evil by birth, he has no will, no power to change it; if he has no will, he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold a man’s sin, a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality…To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. (The) myth decleares that he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge-he acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledge of good and evil-he became a moral being…The evils for which they damn him are reasn, morality, creativeness, joy-all the cardinal values of his existence….the essence of his nature as a man. Whatever he was- that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love- he was not a man.

If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever.

Kindness gives courage.

It would be indeed unusual if it turned out that the set of orders that our mind is able to construct and accept, having as it does a deep sense of “understanding the essence of things,” matches precisely the set of all possible orders to be detected in the Universe as a whole. We should admit that this is not impossible, yet it does seem highly improbable. This way of thinking, so modest in its assessment of our abilities, is probably the only way recommended, given our lack of knowledge, because we are not aware of our limitations.

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

The truths of the one subject have already been discovered, but have not been accepted because they spell the death of the faith in the lie.

The ultimate purpose of a teacher is to teach students to think in a better way.

What if I said I wanted a friend?' The ship crouches among the fresh-cut stalks. 'Or a lover? That's how you make a person, yes? By affection and intimacy. By touches like knives in a salted bed.

Life is a natural phenomenon – and by mystifying it, one only disgraces its natural beauty.

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

Persistence, perseverance, and continuous improvement are the ingredients for forming a successful person.

Anger dulls the sharpness of mind, hardens the softness of feelings, and replaces the sweetness of the world with bitterness.

To enjoy inner joy and happiness, let us use our conscience to create peace and harmony in this world.

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We often know the truth, but rarely do we follow it.

[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.

Close your eyes to feel deeply the tranquility and serenity of the mind.

The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to change. Much of what was repulsive 100 years ago is normal today, and - although it may be a slippery slope - what is repulsive today is possible to be normal 100 years into tomorrow; the human standard has always been but to push the envelope. In this way, all generations are linked, and one can only hope that every extremist, self-proclaimed progressive is considering this ultimate 'Utopia' to which his kindness will lead at the end of the chain.

Act as if you are the hero of the movie we call life.

Let dreams shine. Let hope bloom again.

It is rarely possible to learn yourself fully.

Ideal is the one, who knows the self.

At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are outside language, they are unformulable, although they are perfectly rigorous and clear and although every one of the relations they involve is capable of precise expression in words. So the mind moves in a closed space of partial truth, which may be larger or smaller, without ever being able so much as to glance at what is outside.

If you're tired of triviality, maybe it's time you changed your life.

Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves.

The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence.

A true friend is a reflection of yourself.

In your trembling touch of love, I lost my past, present, and future.

Like a flower, the magical softness of your voice touched my heart.

Zhuang Zhu also meant that the feet as such are small pieces of space, but their vocation (‘walking’) is to articulate the world’s space. The size of the foot, the gap between the legs, have no role, are never lined up anywhere. But they measure all the rest. Our feet form a compass that has no useful function, apart from evaluating distance. The legs survey. Their stride constitutes a serviceable measurement.

Leaves leave this world in beautiful fall colors and songs.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

An honest and wise man is always a very simple man.

It takes many years to build good reputations, but it takes a few minutes for their destruction.

It is not too late to fall in love with yourself again.

[M]ental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become. Such a tension is inherent in the human being and therefore is indispensable to mental wellbeing.