Philosophy Quotes - Page 161

To feel pure joy, sell your pride and be loving and kind.

My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-thump that widens unsealable wounds. My heart is the strongest part of me. It's survived everything I've thrown at it and much more than it should.

See life as if it is a miracle, and will find that it is indeed a miracle!

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Human you are, and your religion, Humanism.

Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you to total surveillance around the clock every waking and sleeping minute of your life, before you're born and, even worse and where the real fun begins, after you're dead. A celestial North Korea. Who wants this to be true? Who but a slave desires such a ghastly fate? I've been to North Korea. It has a dead man as its president, Kim Jong-Il is only head of the party and head of the army. He's not head of the state. That office belongs to his deceased father, Kim Il-Sung. It's a necrocracy, a thanatocracy. It's one short of a trinity I might add. The son is the reincarnation of the father. It is the most revolting and utter and absolute and heartless tyranny the human species has ever evolved. But at least you can fucking die and leave North Korea!

Be the cyclone of love to extinguish the fire of hatred.

Excerpt from "The Strength in Knowing"Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits theessence of all that is

It is adversity that often creates beauty.

There is no shame in doing the right thing , even if its too late.

Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].

Share your love, share you happiness, care for others; your wealth will be endless.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

An over examination of life can deter you from life itself

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

A happy man doesn't reconsider life.

Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them.

Not knowing that I am in the ocean of love, I am swimming to reach the island of love.

It is an utter insult towards the fascinating neurons of your cerebral cortex, to believe anybody’s words blindly, even if that person is a Scientist or a Philosopher. So, I urge to you, that you must exercise your own reasoning and judgment (that’s what your cerebral cortex is for; to be specific the frontal lobes) at all times.

If you live consciously, if you try to bring consciousness to every act that you go through, you will be living in a silent, blissful state, in serenity, in joy, in love. Your life will have the flavour of a festival. That is the meaning of heaven: your life will have many flowers in it, much fragrance will be released through you. You will have an aura of delight. Your life will be a song of life-affirmation, it will be a sacred yes to all that existence is. You will be in communion with existence — in communion with stars, with the trees, with the rivers, with the mountains, with people, with animals. This whole life and this whole existence will have a totally different meaning for you. From every nook and corner, rivers of bliss will be flowing towards you. Heaven is just a name for that state of mind. Hell means you are living so unconsciously, so absurdly, in such contradiction, that you go on creating more and more misery for yourself.

pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stable scientific findings--the embodied mind, the cognitive unconscious, and metaphorical thought. Just as the ideas of cells and DNA in biology are stable and not likely to be found to be mistakes, so we believe that there is more than enough converging evidence to establish at least these three results. Ironically, these scientific results challenge the classical philosophical view of scientific realism, a disembodied objective scientific realism that can be characterized by the following three claims:1. There is a world independent of our understanding of it.2. We can have stable knowledge of it.3. Our very concepts and forms of reason are characterized not by our bodies and brains, but by the external world in itself. It follows that scientific truths are not merely truths as we understand them, but absolute truths. Obiviously, we accept (1) and (2) and we believe that (2) applies to the three findings of cognitive science we are discussing on the basis of converging evidence. But those findings themselves contradict (3).

The goal and meaning of individual life (which is the only real life) no longer lie in individual development but in the policy of the State, which is thrust upon the individual from outside and consists in the execution of an abstract idea which ultimately tends to attract all life to itself.

In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

There are no wrong people—only the wrong expression and the wrong perception.

There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

When I am looking for you, then in silence, your every atom is longing for me.

Don't wait for a perfect husband, love a man endlessly to make him perfect.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

There’s nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you’re alone you can be yourself, but when you’re in empty relationships you can’t even be yourself.You can be real alone, or you can be a ghost with false friends.Pulse proximity is not intimacy, and it’s worse than no friends at all.

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

A question asked in earnest, deserves an earnest answer.

Ideas are universal, the names and titles we give them are not.

It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization.

Give much, demand little.

It was a slow fall, through warm experiences and good laughs. It didn't even feel like love until I got to the end. Even then, it was not the hard surface of rock, but the scorching embrace of more.

Extend your loving and kind hands towards others. In return you will find that the whole universe will be kind to you.

Give when you have nothing to give. That is when it will bring you the most joy.

Our uniqueness is what makes us common. It is the same fact that we are unique that we as individuals have in common.

É muito mais lisonjeiro,(...)lutar-se por alguma coisa bela e ideal e saber ao mesmo tempo que não se conseguirá alcançá-la. Os ideais serão algo que se possa alcançar? Viveremos para cabar com a morte? Não, viveremos para temê-la e também para amá-la, e precisamente por causa da morte é que nossa vida vez por outra resplandece tão radiosa num belo instante.

Superficial people consider themselves capable of doing everything. The question, however, is who is willing to hire them?

We often fear to say what is true. Our tongues are tied by the beliefs of the society.

I don't live life to be different.I live life to be the same.

My faith is stong enough to endure, kind enough to feel, big enough to accommodate.

Never forget the power of love, but always forget the love of power.

The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily..

Intelligence is not always the source of knowledge but love is.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

In darkness, remember that the sun never forgets to rise with her morning smile.

If you love without judging anyone, you create your own heaven on this magnificent earth.

Oh my friend from future centuries, I am leaving my love and endless good wishes for you. I have no possessions to leave for you. I have a broken pen and a few pages of paper with thoughts that I am leaving for you. Believe in the power of your thoughts, truths of your perceptions, magic of joy in your dreams, and the attraction of your love and purity.

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.

The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.

Every new friend is a fresh flower with endless beauty, love, and joy.

You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there.

I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them. It allows you to be many different things. And plurality and complexity are very, very important to me.

This universe was created for joy and happiness. You are born to be happy. Your happiness ultimately makes this universe joyful. Blooming flowers, singing birds, and smiling people fill this universe with joy.

The Norweigian philosopher Tonnesen said that to think about anything but death is evasion. Society, art, culture, the whole of civilisation is nothing but evasion, one great collective self delusion, the intention of which is to make us forget that all the time we are falling through the air, at every moment getting closer to death.