Philosophy Quotes - Page 177

I hate these affairs", he'd told her once, tearing up an engraved invitation to an exclusive charity ball. "They're the worst kind of discrimination. An invitation doesn't really mean that you're invited; it means that a whole lot of people aren't

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

My life is never empty because my heart is always full.

With love in the heart and kindness in the mind, nothing is impossible.

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

Love without judging. Love without reason.

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.

Love is the greatest treasure of humanity.

I WISH YOU ALL THE REALITY YOU COULD EVER WANT. HANDLE. WANT.

In deep silence, raise your consciousness. Now feel the profound joy of life.

The Kingdom of God does not come by Observation. It is hidden in the inner dimension.

Our bodies are made of supernova dust, the epitome of ultimate destruction and shatter. And though we are whole, beings with bodies and souls, with cosmos in our eyes and black heart holes, we love as fiercely as the force of creation.

Do not believe in a god who is as silly, and meaner than you. For, that would surely be your higher-self, and your stupid alter-ego.

How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?

A little hope and love now and thenWise and beautiful, more than often.

This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.

A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fathers or Holy Spirits or Sons it believes in.

Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.

When someone can love without judging, he is truly wise.

Loneliness is your only companion.

It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular. A systematic ribbon and button maker can become unpopular but essentially is not at all, inasmuch as he does not mean much by the very odd things he says (alas, and this is a popular art!). Socrates, on the other hand, was the most unpopular in Greece because he said the same thing as the simplest person but meant infinitely much by it. To be able to stick to one thing, to stick to it with ethical passion and undauntedness of spirit, to see the intrinsic duplexity of this one thought with the same impartiality, and at one and the same time to see the most profound earnestness and the greatest jest, the deepest tragedy and highest comedy―this is unpopular in any age for anyone who has not realized that immediacy is over. But neither can what is essentially unpopular be learned by rote. More on that later.

Question is not whom I am going to love, but question is whom I am going not to love.

In order to be a success, you must think like success. Get up and move! You got to make things happen.

Whether we are trying to buy a packet of chips or getting to know a person for a potentially important relationship, its nice to have an overview of what it/he/she contains. - Of A Sense of Self

Our thoughts and perceptions are our god.Our true inner awareness is the purest temple,where I worship every day for the divine.

The ability to win increases when you do not fear to struggle.

Life loses its meaning when you forget your purpose.

This is the time to love. This is the time to forgive. This is the time to ponder. This is the time to wonder.

Live, not just for livingLive, not just for gettingLive for the beauty of lovingLive for the joy of giving.

When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor.

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.

Joy and happiness derives not from receiving but from giving.

If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

You are a child of love that has come here to live in love and to give away love.

I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars.For the first time in my life I had a greater idea of how infinitesimally small our planet really is and, furthermore, how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the vast universe.I took a seat on a rock next to Lily and took in the moment to comprehend the vastness of everything else, and the incredible smallness of I.

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn't.

Life is difficult, easy, and wonderful. As you think, it is as such.

Life is beautiful, but we often forget and decorate it with ugliness.

Dream as you desire. Prepare to live as you dream.

It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.

So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want to, but don't just slip into it. If you want to end pleasure, though, which is to end pain, you must be totally attentive to the whole structure of pleasure - not cut it out as monks and sannyasis do, never looking at a woman because they think it is a sin and thereby destroying the vitality of their understanding - but seeing the whole meaning and significance of pleasure. Then you will have tremendous joy in life. You cannot think about joy. Joy is an immediate thing and by thinking about it, you turn it into pleasure. Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

Smile in such a nice way that you introduce yourself.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...

Be wonderful! Because you are already beautiful.

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.

Whatever happens in life happens to make you stronger. So fear not, accept it as a gift from the universe. Use the event to capture the essence of this journey we call life.

For success, choice is more important than action.

Smiling heals the soul and fills the heart with bliss.

First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

It brings tears of joy to a teacher’s eye when the student becomes a great success.

When we spend money we lose them forever, when we give them away, we will have them forever.

I am not what you are. I am only what I can see. I am me.

But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself.

Each time I see a beautiful sunset or sunrise, I have to pinch myself because I can't believe that I'm awake and not dreaming.

All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who deserves the best of me.