Philosophy Quotes - Page 130

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

Time never changes—only we change. We measure the changes of our lives and think that we are measuring time. We are just measuring the movement of the earth.

Beauty is all around you. To find it, you need love filled eyes to search for it.

The consciousness of an embryo is the universal consciousness. What we learn after birth is awareness and egocentric consciousness that we call the mind. Everyday we learn to conform to the beauty, tragedy, and adversity of this world and that forms our judgmental mind.

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

Your anger and resentment can destroy peace but love can fill the world with peace and happiness.

Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen.

Intolerance breeds hatred. Hatred creates divisions. Divisions destroy common grounds.

The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others. It does not allow that the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of advantages enjoyed by many. Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

Be a leader who is driven by purpose but not by position or power.

Mom means miracles of a magical life.

An intelligent person is eager to speak, but a wise person is eager to listen.

The best journey of life that you can take is inside yourself to discover your new thoughts, new ideas, and new hopes.

It may be inevitable that mankind has to suffer so that it may gain experience to transcend and transform her collective consciousness.

Take a break to listen to the song of the wind, talk to the whispering trees, feel the love of flowers, dance with the dancing leaves, and enjoy the tranquility and serenity of nature.

Mummy became a shadow, a woman who had lost herself because she had never found herself. She had always done the right thing, and I had a feeling that the right thing is always going to be the wrong thing, that you find yourself by stepping out of yourself.

If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust...flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making others happy, deseases are not the only thing that spreads easy. We are all connected in some form of unseen energy... think how those around you will impact you and make you feel if they were happy?

A person who always finds something wrong is most likely thinking wrong.

There is never a right time. Except the time we make right.

You deserve someone so much better.""You will find someone better so soon that you wont even know.""I told you, he/she wasn't good enough for you.""Oh c'mon! He/she wasn't the ONE for you.""Things will soon be fine. It's just a phase.""He/she will never find anyone better than you. Let him/her rot in hell."Gradually, you realize that all these are STANDARD statements that everybody makes to everyone. Because they don't have anything else to say.But, only your heart knows what you actually want to hear is something else. Entirely different.How you actually want and need to be handled is different. But, you don't say. Because you are scared to lose what's now left with you, and that's completely fine. To be protective of what's left. Because you can't bring back the dead!However, you also realize, that out of all these people there was only one who had the courage to show you a mirror and not be shattered by your wrath.You realize that there was only one set of arms, that were your sanctuary even though you twisted them in an outburst of anger.Not suddenly, but really slowly it settles within you, that it was only one person who knew you inside out and had the bravery to handle you at your worst.Even more slowly it settles you let that person drift away when you wanted them to run back to you and hold onto you.And so you are left with people telling you, "life moves on" and no one telling you, "Let's just pause it here!

Trying to fit in will not change a society. To change it, you have to be brave, fearless, and strong enough to withstand societal criticism so that you may break the boundary and let light come in.

Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions.

I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.

So much to love, so much to do.So much to care just for you.

Your kindness becomes your courage.

But for centuries, since the capitulation of Judah, the Jewish peoples had been almost continuously under foreign control. So, where was Yahweh all this time while his people suffered...? Far from ever questioning the very being of such an inept deity, the conclusion was invariably reached – likely promoted by religious authorities living privileged lifestyles – that the people had sinned, had worshipped other gods, had somehow failed their side of the bargain.

The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.

The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

Every action either teaches you or blesses you.

Daily life, the sacred time of a man.

Life will not last forever. Enjoy its beauty and joy while you are here.

You have to think before you can feel. You have to conceive before you can perceive.

Life is the longest journey.

If you hurt, expect to feel the pain.

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)

It is better to be nonjudgmental. Pure love is always unconditional.

As long as hope is alive happiness will be there.

Babies smile without any reason. Be like a baby.

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

Love to live and live to love.

Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

How I look to you is the reflection of how you look at me.

No matter what you do and how you do it, you will always be criticized. Do it anyway.

Be solution oriented. Infect everyone with enthusiasm.

Well,” Harry said, “look at it this way: Suppose you were an intelligent bacterium floating in space, and you came upon one of our communication satellites, in orbit around the Earth. You would think, What a strange, alien object this is, let’s explore it. Suppose you opened it up and crawled inside. You would find it very interesting in there, with lots of huge things to puzzle over. But eventually you might climb into one of the fuel cells, and the hydrogen would kill you. And your last thought would be: This alien device was obviously made to test bacterial intelligence and to kill us if we make a false step.“Now, that would be correct from the standpoint of the dying bacterium. But that wouldn’t be correct at all from the standpoint of the beings who made the satellite. From our point of view, the communications satellite has nothing to do with intelligent bacteria. We don’t even know that there are intelligent bacteria out there. We’re just trying to communicate, and we’ve made what we consider a quite ordinary device to do it.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.

Don't expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people.

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

I believe that hope, imagination, and dreams create our destiny.

To ask the meaning of life is silly, with rhetorical rhetoric. Life is the meaning.

A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.

Having dreams without enthusiasm is like a bird living in a cage.

Knowing your ignorance is better than your knowledge.

I love only the god whose religion is kindness.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.