Philosophy Quotes - Page 146

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

When you hope for the best for sure something better will happen.

Life is the greatest sacred existence.

Crowd is just a bunch of heads, it is their leader who is the mind.

Education is important not because it helps you to get a job, but because it opens the window of the mind through which we can see the beauty of life.

I don't expect forgiveness.I only expect acceptance.

I came. I saw the enormous possibilities and power of the human mind. It is the biggest plot of fertile land in the world. We just have to find the right see and the right technique of cultivation.

Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They're only allowed as much reality as serves the masters. But they're not allowed any reality which disturbs their masters...

We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.

To love is to finally live.

This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.

I never wanted to be a martyr—even for love. I don’t want to die for love. I want to live for it.

A Christian is supposed to be in the world, and yet not of the world--a Both/And as perplexing and demanding as the Either/Or that precedes the life of faith. I'm at once a pure, beautiful, genderless soul, but at the same time a gendered body full of flaws, sins, and wanting. This contradiction, the Both/And, is the Cross.

Live for a reason. Live with passion.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

Be not perfect, be just and kind.

Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men.

When you have your conscious mind, you have everything you need to succeed.

Gender bias is written and practiced throughout all of the world's societies.From the words 'mankind' to 'man'.From the inequality in 'pays for work done' and to 'tasks which are needed to be done'. From the sanctity of marriage when a woman takes a 'man's' name.From the religious overtones when women are not allowed or permitted to join in and be treated as equal and conduct rites.Even the words 'woman' and 'women' are gender orientated.The genders will never be equal, nor will they ever be allowed to be for man has seen to that.To man, everything is about ownership and dominance with the need to control everything that he sees fit.Maybe...it's time for a change in thinking and being.it's a time to be equal and one.

The influence of the Sermon on the Mount is truly past reckoning. Any rational human being with a conscientious mind is bound to be influenced by its exuberant content regardless of religious background.

The best beauty in the world is the beauty of kindness.

If you have to ask, ask for the ability to help others.

Your mind is the most fertile and largest land in the universe. You can grow anything you desire.

An excerpt from:“Hypothetically Speaking”ByAnthony T. Hincks(A book about you and the world – coming soon!)If I was a savvy person, I would watch, and study mankind in order to find out where his weaknesses lay.Greed, for sure; vanity; mistrust; a tendency towards violence; fanaticism, and many other less than honorable traits and even some honorable ones which could also be used, and capitalized on.Then, once I had found his weaknesses I would act.I and some friends or family, not terms that I would usually use but ones that are more commonly used here on Earth, would start an empire.Months – Years - Millennium Who cares, for time is on my side, not yours!I would sow mistrust; magic; wisdom; knowledge, and start many religions.Why many religions?Because where would the fun be by just having one, when with a whole handful you can sow hatred; do unspeakable acts all in the name of religion. That’s a lot more fun, and, besides which, it suits my purposes.Innovation – Invention – Intelligence All of those things would come, but only at a time of my choosing.Decades would pass and then centuries. Wars would be fought. He against him. He against her. She against him. They against others.I tell you, watching something come to fruition is a hell of a lot of fun.

It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.

You burn like a candleinside my soul,showing me a waythrough this darkness.

Love yourself so much that you can never harm yourself. Remember, you can never harm others without harming yourself.

To feel the joy of life, sell your pride and get lost in the simplicity and humility.

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...

To find yourself, lose yourself in search of knowledge and love.

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

Life is so magnificent! How can I grow old?

Wisdom and love never decrease by being shared.

And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

I am filling my life with an abundance of love every day and in every way so that I can give it away.

The information superhighways will have the same effect as our present superhighways or motorways. They will cancel out the landscape, lay waste to the territory and abolish real distances. What is merely physical and geographical in the case of our motorways will assume its full dimensions in the electronic field with the abolition of mental distances and the absolute shrinkage of time. All short circuits (and the establishment of this planetary hyper-space is tantamount to one immense short circuit) produce electric shocks. What we see emerging here is no longer merely territorial desert, but social desert, employment desert, the body itself being laid waste by the very concentration of information. A kind of Big Crunch, contemporaneous with the Big Bang of the financial markets and the information networks. We are merely at the dawning of the process, but the waste and the wastelands are already growing much faster than the computerization process itself.

Glorify what is great not what is important.

Be compassionate, be kind and, above all, be loving.

...the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.

The writer is the cursed artist of the soul. The expression of his art is a reflection of his quest to understand man by unraveling the mysteries that have been haunting humankind from time immemorial. In the end of his journey to understand man, the writer becomes more human even though his soul ends up finding less peace.

People are crazy about food, smoking, drinking, girls but not about their dreams.

he who speaks parables knows and understands the real meaning of parables better

Think about love, work with love, give away and live with love.

Destiny is manifested only through action.

Oh my love! You are the light of love in the darkness. I am longing for you, you are my flower and freshness.

Life is a most wonderful but wild dream.

True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that's not possible for you then at least love whoever you wants to but respect everyone.

Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up.

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)

When you dream with optimism and trust, it becomes a reality fast.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few

We are like a drop of love, with crystal clear beauty, charm, joy and dance, like to vanish with the ocean of love to become the ocean

A smile is the dance of your soul.

Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it—which always amounts to the same.

Here I would point out, as a symptom equally worthy of notice, the ABSENCE OF FEELING which usually accompanies laughter. It seems as though the comic could not produce its disturbing effect unless it fell, so to say, on the surface of a soul that is thoroughly calm and unruffled. Indifference is its natural environment, for laughter has no greater foe than emotion. I do not mean that we could not laugh at a person who inspires us with pity, for instance, or even with affection, but in such a case we must, for the moment, put our affection out of court and impose silence upon our pity. In a society composed of pure intelligences there would probably be no more tears, though perhaps there would still be laughter; whereas highly emotional souls, in tune and unison with life, in whom every event would be sentimentally prolonged and re-echoed, would neither know nor understand laughter.

For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

Love all, trust all, and do good to all; you will not lose.

Live a fuller sacred life.

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.

What you do without expectations defines your success.