Philosophy Quotes - Page 164

A lie never grows old.

Hopes are potential power. It has the innate ability to show the way of life.

The best revenge is kind forgiveness.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

To achieve greatness, feel grateful for what you have.

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.

An individual may be alone in a physical sense for many years and yet he may be related to ideas, values, or at least social patterns that give him a feeling of communion and "belonging." On the other hand, he may live among people and yet be overcome with an utter feeling of isolation, the outcome of which, if it transcends a certain limit, is the state of insanity which schizophrenic disturbances present.

If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me,If only your heart ever, craves for me or my presence…If only you feel that love again someday for me,If only you are affected someday by my absence…Only you can end all my suffering and this unbearable pain,If only you would know what you could never procure…If only you go through the memories of past once again,Since the day you left my heart has bled, no one has its cure…If only you would bring that love, those showers and that rain…If only you would come back and see what damage you create,I’ve been waiting for your return since forever more…If only you would see the woman that you have made,You said we cannot sail through, how were you so sure?If only you can feel the old things that can never fade,You may have moved on, but a piece of my heart is still with you…I know how I’ve come so far alone; I know how I’m able to wade,People say that I’m insane and you won’t ever come back again…Maybe you would have never made your separate way,Maybe you would have stayed with me and proved everyone wrong…If only you would know the pain of dying every day,If only you would feel the burden of smiling and being strong…

God is a sound frequency, and we can all tune in if we just listen. Some find The Rhythm through different melodies, but it's all music.

If we learn to love each other and care, enduring peace will fill the world to share.

A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.

Wir werden alt und grau. Wir werden eines Tages verschlissen sein und aus der Welt verschwinden. Mit unseren Träumen ist das anders. Sie können in anderen Menschen weiterleben, wenn es uns schon längst, längst nicht mehr gibt.

Smile like the sun and radiate your light and make this world bright.

Sing your song as you like to do,don't worry about who is listening to you.

Every birthday comes with a great purpose and without our knowledge, it makes us wiser.

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

Peace is a way of life.Peace is a way of love.Peace is a heart’s forgiveness.Peace is a mind’s kindness.Peace is living in harmony.Peace is living with courtesy.Peace is living with trust.Peace is living with truth and trust.Peace is living with freeness.Peace is living with happiness.

To create a peaceful world, inhale the love of life and exhale the beauty of life.

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

Without virtue, it is hard to bear the results of good fortune suitably. Those who lack virtue become arrogant and wantonly aggressive when they have these other goods. They think less of everyone else, and do whatever they please. They do this because they are imitating the magnanimous person though they are not really like him.

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

If every one of us spreads the message of love, compassion, kindness and forgiveness, peace will be there.

At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements of religion cannot be confuted by reason, why should not I believe in them, since they have so much on their side:­ tradition, the concurrence of mankind, and all the consolation they yield? Yes, why not? Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. But do not deceive yourself into thinking that with such arguments you are following the path of correct reasoning. If ever there was a case of facile argument, this is one. Ignorance is ignorance; no right to believe anything is derived from it.

What we call spirit is our universal consciousness. We can also call it atomic consciousness. Every atom is conscious and knows everything that is going on around it at every moment.

Life is about solving for x

Being blinded in love and friendship is a common mistake.

I came here after billions of years to touch your heart with my purest love.

The word 'proof' should strictly only be used when we are dealing with deductive inferences.... Popper claimed that scientists only need to use deductive inferences.... So if a scientist is only interested in demonstrating that a given theory is false, she may be able to accomplish her goal without the use of inductive inferences.... When a scientist collects experimental data, her aim might be to show that a particular theory...is false. She will have to resort to inductive reasoning.... So Popper's attempt to show that science can get by without induction does not succeed.

To be a great success, be happy today.

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.

Dreams are the poetry of life to be written with love and actions.

A true lover is like a flower.

Never expect anything without being prepared to give.

I believe in the power of love, not because I can see it, but because I see the world through it.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

You are always a student and life is your teacher. Always be curious, enthusiastic, and open to change.

Every moment, every second, every hour and every day, be in love by becoming love. There is nothing else.

Whoever you meet in your journey of life, enlighten them with the light of your love and kindness.

Fear of new ideas breeds angry head spiders that have been known to attack.

Knowledge is the beauty of a diamond, but wisdom is the shining reflection of that beauty.

If a society does not value love and kindness, that society has no value.

To be a great success detect the problem, find the solutions, never complain, but never forget to compliment someone.

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.

Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the solitude of a house that still vibrated with the throbs of a singular life that had helped shape many lives and with the ache of attempts to render useful service to that life. The River of Winged Dreams was therefore constructed as a link between dimensions of past and future emotions and intellect and matter and spirit.

Love is a gift forever.You can't take it back, never.

What if one were to want to hunt for these hidden presences? You can’t just rummage around like you’re at a yard sale. You have to listen. You have to pay attention. There are certain things you can’t look at directly. You need to trick them into revealing themselves. That’s what we’re doing with Walter, Jaz. We’re juxtaposing things, listening for echoes. It’s not some silly cybernetic dream of command and control, modeling the whole world so you can predict the outcome. It’s certainly not a theory of everything. I don’t have a theory of any kind. What I have is far more profound.’‘What’s that?’‘A sense of humor.’Jaz looked at him, trying to find a clue in his gaunt face, in the clear gray eyes watching him with such - what? Amusement? Condescension? There was something about the man which brought on a sort of hermeneutic despair. He was a forest of signs.‘We’re hunting for jokes.’ Bachman spoke slowly, as if to a child. ‘Parapraxes. Cosmic slips of the tongue. They’re the key to the locked door. They’ll help us discover it.’‘Discover what?’‘The face of God. What else would we be looking for?

I love the tranquility, serenity, generosity, and the beauty of the ocean.

Life is a magical song of the universe. To understand it, feel it in your heart and sing along.

Our view of the mind not only shapes our view of ourselves; less obviously, it also shapes our view of that part of our experience we conceive of as dealing with the external world. As we learn about the structure of this aspect of experience, we find that the world presents itself to consciousness only after being mediated to lesser or (more often) greater extents by mental structures and processes.

Don’t let the opinions of others interfere with your true perception.

Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits.

L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.

When I am ready for the opportunity, I get lucky.

Who I am? Am I thinking?

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny.

Your life is your dream dreamt by your heart.