Philosophy Quotes - Page 157

Huang Sung turned to the master and asked, "Master, will it come to pass?"The master looked up into the sky and then turned to Huang Sung, "When the sky is red from our tears and the earth is blackened by the ashes of our forefathers and then, when we look inwards to where our hearts once were, then we shall know that it has come to pass, but not in the time allotted to man."From a book that I am writing, called, "The Teachings of Huang Sung.

Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will.

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

With love, give up better for the best and without a rest.

You don't need to be in the light to be a beacon of beauty.For Marta

To feel the pure joy of life, donate yourself for the betterment of others.

In their minds, it seems as though people don't often have the same answers, but in their hearts, they do very frequently have the same questions.

The Universe, solitude, passion, and recognition won't ever let you hate your life. Try to be as close to them as possible.

The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace.

The expression of preferences is the essence of love.

The desire to belong is in every mind.

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward and onward, until the Self within you morphs into Krishna – until the Self morphs into Buddha – until the Self turns into Christ.

Find truth inside you to find peace in the world.

Never lie. Firstly, you will be caught in the lie sooner or later. Secondly, count on problems when repairing the consequences of the lie. Therefore, always tell the truth no matter how unpleasant it is.

Love me!Hate me!I don't care which because either way,you're still talking about me!

How beautiful it is to have inner peace while knowing that everyone is busy with their own battles in life.

To lovers there.Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.

Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity.

A smile is a sparkle of your soul and a glint of light from your heart.

The most important things to know in life are how to love unconditionally and how to be happy.

One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.

Be generous like the ocean with your love. Let the whole world enjoy the abundance.

Find out the difference between ethics and morality, but never forget to be kind.

The desire to belong is in every mind.The desire to get lost in love is in every heart.

Peace is not out there and no one can really give you peace. Most often than not you are at war with yourself. To find the peace create the inner calmness, tranquility and practice self love.

Wisdom comes from introspection.

There are three absolute freedoms that we have that no one can take away; freedom to think, freedom to love and freedom to feel the joys of life.

My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.

Without love life is impossible.

Try and avoid people who use the word "cant" regularly associate rather with those who say "can" and do

When you’ve tried everything and failed, try everything else and succeed

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me.

Life is the most fascinating journey that you will never ever be able to take again.

You are never too old or too young to be a leader.

Stress is a thought, a perception of fear, it will melt away if welet our thoughts change with courage.

Dreaming's great as long as you wake up now and again

Dear Sigmund,Multiple Personality Disorder is a much discussed topic in my one bedroom bedsit."Signed....Thomas, Jane, Ralf, Tom, Toomey and Spot

When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

If you have a drop of violence or anger in your mind, it can ignite a candle and be the source of violence, so be kind.

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

Philosophy starts when we question ourselves and search for meaning in our lives.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one "object" of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.

If you want inner peace, unconditionally forgive everyone. If you want world peace, be an example and love everyone.

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

Never fade into your life,Never stop imagining,Never give up on your dreams,You only fail, when you think you have failed.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow. Not being able to accept that you're just this collection of cells, intelligent to whatever degree, capable of feeling emotion to whatever degree, for a limited amount of time and so on, on this tiny little rock orbiting this not particularly important sun in one of just 400m galaxies, and whatever other levels of reality there might be via something like brane-theory [of multiple dimensions] … really, it's not about you. It's what religion does with this drive for acknowledgement of self-importance that really gets up my nose. 'Yeah, yeah, your individual consciousness is so important to the universe that it must be preserved at all costs' – oh, please. Do try to get a grip of something other than your self-obsession. How Californian. The idea that at all costs, no matter what, it always has to be all about you. Well, I think not.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

A smile is on everyone's lips.