Philosophy Quotes - Page 144

Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at right time, it is also about taking actions at right time.

Life will be peaceful if you can fill your heart with an abundance of love.

Smile! Accept hatred with love.

Start your day with appreciation and gratitude.

When you have a definite purpose of life, the universe will reveal the path to attainment.

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.

Be transparent like glass, be flexible like water, and be attractive like a magnet.

Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity.

The religious and scholarly alike arrive at conclusions as to Jesus’ nature based on the world-view they hold, the belief structure that shapes their interpretation. Inaccurate views of the function of reality can only lead to erroneous conclusions.

But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.

A thinker builds his castle of thoughts inside a garden of roses and it loses its relevance among the roses. He builds it along the shore and it’s trampled by the fury of waves eventually. He builds it on a cliff high enough and it becomes impregnable but out of reach. Such is the fate of that castle

You can contol nothing but your own thoughts, but with your thoughts you can control the whole world.

Judge little but love much.

You alone can change the world if you want to.

True music begins when the song of your soul finds its tune and the emotions of your heart find their voices.

I may be very poor, but I'm rich in so many other ways.

Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people—what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be so stopped by the mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.

The world is full of beauty; to find it, just look for it.

Beauty is the reflection of a loving heart, not the quality of an object or subject.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Be a smile on someone's lips.

The future belongs to those who never forget to think.

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

To say that the holocaust was objectively wrong, is to say that the holocaust was wrong even though the Nazis who carried it out thought that it was right, and it would still have been wrong, even if the Nazis had won World War II and succeeded in brainwashing or exterminating everybody who disagreed with them, so that everyone in the world thought that the holocaust was right and good. To say that the holocaust was objectively wrong, means that it's wrong regardless of the outcome of World War II. The premise is that if there is no God, then moral values or duties are not objective in that sense.

Be different. Trust yourself. Be bold.

Life is a teacher. We are the student.

Love is an attraction. It draws one person to another even though they are a thousand miles apart.

There is no “other self” to the unconscious, no independent entity with its own agenda; it is only information and stored value relationships – a broad array of raw information that undergirds the more superficial “knowledge” learned through rational processes and impacts in all ways the emerging Reality that each conscious Self encounters.

Kindness is the beauty of the heart and the smiles of the mind.

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

We can't go back to who we once were. We can only go on and become the person we were meant to be.

Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.

If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? That there is a part of man that man wants to reject? That man wants to keep from knowing what he is? That he wants to protect himself from seeing that he is something awful? And that this 'awful' part of himself might not be as awful as he thinks, but he finds it too strange and he does not know what to do with it? We talk about what to do with the atom bomb...But man's heart, his spirit is the deadliest thing in creation. Are not all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves which they wish, in their deep timidity, to try to preserve? Are not all of man's efforts at order an attempt to still man's fear of himself?

You are one of us, one of those who knows without knowing, and one who will live and die in dreams that blend with this world. No, I am no gypsy, just one who has read a good many books. It is only through reading those great jewels of wisdom that one may see a story in a glint of sunlight, an epic unfold within one’s eyes. There are books all around us. Yet it takes reading a good many books by we mortals to be able to see them.

If you were to ask me what it's about, I guess I'd say that it's about how joy can seem like a distant, unreachable memory, when really it can be as close as the next park bench over--if only we have the courage.

The soul is soft, beautiful, delicate, fun-loving, and always blooming. To nurture the soul, it needs sunshine and unconditional self-love.

There is ascension to potential that Plato couldn’t conceive while prescribing idealism to conception as highest existences. With Streams, there isn’t a difference between ideas and instantiations. They are both authenticated within all possibilities in Stream, within the Primal Cause as ordered. Ideas as ordered constructs in consciousness, instantiations as ordered effects. Instantiations for instance are ordered products from ideas. Ideas are ordered constructs in consciousness. And in authentication, they are the same as external effects.

If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.

Peace begins with understanding and trust.

No one can fall in your love without your acceptance.

The communication with God is very important, because the communication is one of our greatest needs, and God is the most important one we need.

Knowing the why is vastly more important than knowing the how.

A man is wise not because of his intelligence, but because of his understanding and kindness.

Life is not worth living if you forget to love.

When you told me, “You are my star,” my heart danced with joy because that was the best sentence that I have ever heard.

You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

As a physician, we heal by sharing our bestowed power of knowledge, love, and compassion.

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Every problem gets solved with time.

Focusing on the beauty of life is insight. Enjoying the beauty of life is happiness.

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

Simplicity is the ultimate beauty of life.

Love is the only highway to happiness.

Life is those moments when we forget to live but are too busy to enjoy.

To a certain degree,We all seek, life’s purpose and meaning,love, peace and joy,and knowledge, wealth and power…

It is always easier to find fault and criticize than it is to find beauty and appreciation.

If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with—and vice versa—the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.