Philosophy Quotes - Page 166

So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder…

Meditation is a magical way to merge the finite mind with the universal infinite mind.

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

The nineteenth century and our own have been rather the age of multiplication: a dispersion of sexualities, a strengthening of their disparate forms, a multiple implantation of "perversions." Our epoch has initiated sexual heterogeneities.

A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person.

Eyes are the mirror of your mind. Whatever you see, you see in your reflection.

Stop feeling powerless and small when you are adorned with power of love.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Yoga is not only a process of the integration of the soul, mind, and body for self-improvement, it is a process of self -realization and self -acceptance.

It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.

Come slowly over the hills and valleys to touch my soul, feel my heart, and vanish in my joy.

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.

If everyone wants to be somebody, I want to be somebody else

You have to get lost to find your true self.

True humility derives from a proper perspective of our human condition: one among billions on a small planet among billions, like a fungus on a tiny fragment of cheese. Of course, it is nearly impossible for human beings to remain this objective for very long, but truly humble people are nonetheless far more conscious of the insignificance of their true relations, an insignificance that verges on non-existence. A speck of dust does not think itself more superior or inferior than another, nor does it concern itself for what other specks of dust might or might not think. Enthralled by the miracle of existence, the truly humble person lives not for herself or her image, but for life itself, in a condition of pure peace and pleasure.

Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it.

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

When the color goes out of your soul, you are left with an empty heart.

Let my heart feel the joy,see the beauty, all around me.Still it may be in pure agony.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is accepting and neutralizing the fear with the power of love.

My favorite place for taking a vacation is found in my library.

But a map is not enough as a guide for action; we also need a goal that tells us where to go. Animals have no such problems. Their instincts provide them with a map as well as with goals. But lacking instinctive determination and having a brain that permits us to think of many directions in which we can go, we need an object of total devotion, a focal point for all our strivings and the basis for all our effective - not only our proclaimed - values. We need such an object of devotion in order to integrate our energies in one direction, to transcend our isolated existence, with all its doubts and insecurities, and to answer our need for a meaning of life.

God doesn't punish us.We do that all by ourselves.

Everything that happens in our lives has meaning even though we may not understand it or even pay attention to it.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

The great lie that science has given us is that reality is material.

The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment.

Don’t wait for a vacation to enjoy life. Start to enjoy it now, today, wherever you are.

It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

There are two possibilities: accept the reality or change yourself to get ready to accept the reality.

Life is a drama of love, hopes, dreams, desires, and fears. To enjoy it, be bold to overcome fear.

Education does not solve any problem but it gives you the ability to solve the problem.

Dumb ideas come from people who have dumb brains

When love is your power, then you will not have anything to fear.

Giving is the only way of taking part

Change is fearful, but at the end it is beautiful.

The notion that capital – as an infinitely ramified system of exploitation, an abstract, intangible but overpowering logic, a process without a subject or a subject without a face – poses formidable obstacles to its representation has often been taken in a sublime or tragic key. *Vast*, beyond the powers of individual or collective cognition; *invisible*, in its fundamental forms; *overwhelming*, in its capacity to reshape space, time and matter – but unlike the sublime, or indeed the tragic, in its propensity to thwart any reaffirmation of the uniqueness and interiority of a subject. Not a shipwreck *with* a spectator, but a shipwreck *of* the spectator.

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Love has power in it. At the end, it wins over all miseries.

The subconscious mind is the product of universal consciousness, universal knowledge, and universal beauty. It is the reflecting mirror of our conscious mind. The subconscious mind is always eager to manifest through our conscious mind.

Death is never an excuse to stop living.

To enjoy the magnificence of life, keep love blooming in your heart just like flowers bloom in your garden.

Creation and Free Will are constantly moving, hand in hand, like children traveling along a path full of impulses and inspirations.Through the use of the Dragonflame philosophy they become superior artistic beings able to enjoy and share the fruits of creative labor.

A glint of intention initiates the process of creation.

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

Enlighten every life with love to shine.

Your task is not to find a job but to find what makes you happy and do it with all your love.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

How beautiful it is to be stress free and bloom slowly like a flower.

Keep learning, keep learning!

This is today! What will tomorrow bring? Life arrives and departs on its own schedule, not ours; it's time to travel light, and be ready to go wherever it takes us.

Wake up every morning with dreams of a wonderful day.

Une philosophie doit etre portative.

Wherever you are—be there.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

Failure results from lack of focus and half trust. Success results from complete devotion and utmost trust.

Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.

As a physician, I try to heal the mind before healing the body. That’s why most of my patients get better even before they start any medication.