Philosophy Quotes - Page 162

Let your feelings of gratitude dance in your heart and be expressed through your love and kindness.

A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education.

Happiness is an indescribable intense ecstasy of life that comes from deep love and kindness for the world and all of its contents.

Don't love just for beauty, love to make her beautiful.

In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.

Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.

There is no good or evil. We classify things into good and evil because we are currently unable to solve the two problems of the world: death and dearth. If there ever comes a time when we can solve these problems, we won't be required to do this anymore.

You are created invisible spiritually, and invisibility is largely a matter of patience.

Let your actions sing the best melody of life so that everyone can joyfully listen to it.

To change yourself, never forget to challenge yourself.

Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

Leave footprints of love and kindness on the seashore of humanity.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

When we are born,It is into a strange world.And when we live life,We find that we are all strangers.Yet when we die,We find that we were all friends who never knew it.

Everyone is born with the same amount of love in their heart. Some will use it and fill life with joy. Some will lose it and wonder where the joy is.

There is nothing more uplifting than love, except love with kindness.

Wisdom is in uniconsciousness.

I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me desire another. I went from festivity to festivity. On occasion I danced for nights on end, ever madder about people and life. At times, late on those nights when the dancing, the slight intoxication, my wild enthusiasm, everyone’s violent unrestraint would fill me with a tired and overwhelmed rapture, it would seem to me—at the breaking point of fatigue and for a second’s flash—that at last I understood the secret; I would rush forth anew. I ran on like that, always heaped with favors, never satiated, without knowing where to stop, until the day -- until the evening rather when the music stopped and the lights went out.

There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between veering and longing, and spins helpless, exalted, in and out of that fleet blazing touch. Last night Orion vaulted and spread all over the sky, pagan and lunatic, his shoulder and knee on fire, his sword three suns at the ready-for what?t I won’t see this year again, not again so innocent; and longing wrapped round my throat like a scarf. “For the Heavenly Father desires that we should see,” says Ruysbroeck, “and that is why He is ever saying to our inmost spirit one deep unfathomable word and nothing else.” But what is the word? Is this mystery or coyness? A cast-iron bell hung from the arch of my rib cage; when I stirred, it rang, or it tolled, a long syllable pulsing ripples up my lungs and down the gritty sap inside my bones, and I couldn’t make it out; I felt the voiced vowel like a sigh or a note but I couldn’t catch the consonant that shaped it into sense.

Knowing the question is more important than knowing the answer. It makes you curious, lets you think, and helps you to understand and open your mind.

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.

I may not believe in magic, but I know words have the magical power to change a person or a life in a second.

Sure, the Leaning Tower of Pisa leaned like everyone else said it would, the mountains of Tibet were more beautiful than you had ever expected, and the Pyramids of Egypt stood mysteriously in the sea of sand like in the pictures; yet is it the environment or rather the openness in mindset, that makes up the elusive essence of happiness that we experience when we travel?

Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in the future. The silent darkness, the featureless unknown, were more dread than all the terrors that imagination had mustered. Peering, the mind could see nothing sure, nothing in all human experience to be grasped as certain, except uncertainty itself; nothing but obscurity gendered by a thick haze of theories. Man's science was a mere mist of numbers; his philosophy but a fog of words. His very perception of this rocky grain and all its wonders was but a shifting and a lying apparition. Even oneself, that seeming-central fact, was a mere phantom, so deceptive, that the most honest of men must question his own honesty, so insubstantial that he must even doubt his very existence.

The faculty of vision can vary from person to person. On the other hand, we can rely on what our reason tells us because that is the same for everyone

To be a great warrior is not enough. Flesh and blood, however skilled, can be destroyed... you must be more than just a man in minds of your opponents.

We need someone to thank and someone to blame; thus the concept of God and the Devil. We can't accept that everything that happens to us, is our own doing.

The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way.

I have previously reduced the whole science of logic to two facts.The first is that our perceptions being every thing for us, we areperfectly, completely, and necessarily sure of whatever we actually feel.The second is that consequently none of our judgments, separatelytaken, can be erroneous: inasmuch as we see one idea in another it isactually there; but their falsity, when it takes place, is purely relativeto anterior judgments, which we permit to subsist; and it consists inthis, that we believe the idea in which we perceive a new element tobe the same as that we have always had under the same sign, when itis really different, since the new element which we actually see thereis incompatible with some of those which we have previously seen;so that to avoid contradiction we must either take away the former ornot admit the latter.

Education shows the path to the door of opportunity. It gives confidence and hope to open it.

From 'the lesson of the moth':and before i could argue himout of his philosophyhe went and immolated himselfon a patent cigar lighteri do not agree with himmyself i would rather havehalf the happiness and twicethe longevitybut at the same time i wishthere was something i wantedas badly as he wanted to fry himself

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

My heart want to feel the touch.Feel the eternal love so much.

Emulate greatness to be great.

Let us celebrate every little beauty, every little kindness, joy, love, and happiness; and let us express our deepest gratitude for those moments of joy.

Allowing both negative and positive thoughts to arise in life and acknowledging them for what they are, a secondary reaction within to what is happening outside, we grant our emotions free passage within without allowing external influences to impede our personal happiness. We cannot have control over everything that occurs in life, but that is simply not the goal, for we have control only over our relationship that we have with life.

Problems are the guiding lights along the way of life.

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

In life we struggle to make sense of it all.When we should just except the way life is and make it better for all concerned.

Education enhances the power of experience and the beauty of life.

Measure your life not by years but by adventures.

Education is not a destination, but it is a curious journey to enjoy the beauty of life.

Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.

If ever you want a rainbow in your home, go to Sandwich Glass Museum, and let them put one in your heart too.

Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.

She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face.

We want money but we crave appreciation.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

Education is the transportation of the mind.

Let your life be a vivacious poetry of love, compassion, kindness, and beauty.

Clearly, when western cultures absorbed Christianity, they got an all-inclusive package: ancient Hebrew rituals and myths steeped in lost purpose, scantily recorded and broadly misinterpreted teachings of Jesus, revisions and distortions by Paul, twisted cosmology and superstitions supplied by priesthoods and bureaucratic/political distortions innate to man’s traditionalendeavors.

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.

I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

Love anyone and everyone, don't fear for rejection. Love is an inner perception, there is only love, no place for rejection.

When you seek love in every steps of life, love will seek you every moment of life.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.