Philosophy Quotes - Page 180

...We find our greatest peace when we embrace something that gives meaning to our lives. Often, it is love for somebody or something we can give up our lives for, or somebody or something that we are sure will never betray us. That love could be for a partner, for our offspring, for a country or for a belief...

When someone achieves higher consciousness, he or she never dies. They only transform.

What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer. The Chautauquas were pushed aside by faster-paced radio, movies and TV, and it seems to me the change was not entirely an improvement. Perhaps because of these changes the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep. The old channels cannot contain it and in its search for new ones there seems to be growing havoc and destruction along its banks. In this Chautauqua I would like not to cut any new channels of consciousness but simply dig deeper into old ones that have become silted in with the debris of thoughts grown stale and platitudes too often repeated.

Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.

Look. If I touch you with this hand, I can remember touching you, but I can't prove I ever did. If reality is nothing more than what is in our mind...then what is the difference between this world and a dream?

Love is most powerfulLove is most resourcefulLove is most wonderfulLove is most blissful.

Beauty is important, but who you are in your heart defines you better.

Success is the byproduct of desires, purpose-oriented actions, and persistence.

You deserve your love more than anyone else. First fill your vessel with love and then give it away with joy.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

Star in the sky is useless to the world,Star on the stage makes the difference to the world.

A simple act of kindness could be the source of great happiness.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

We have no heart at seventeen. We think we do; we think we have been cursed with a holy, bloated thing that twitches at the name we adore, but it is not a heart because though it will forfeit anything in the world-the mind, the body, the future, even the last lonely hour it has-it will not sacrifice itself.

By the time the Truth comes, you'd have been a sure-shot rascal, a long-gone bastard, a life-long sinner, but an ever-humble winner.

Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

Go ahead. Enjoy the hills and valleys, days and nights, and all the beauty of life.

Tenderness of heart and kindness of the soul are not signs of weakness, but they are signs of inner strength.

Consciousness makes you an unlimited being by giving the power of your imagination.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

If you quit pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might have been hidden behind that next door you decided not to open, since the last fifty doors revealed little or nothing.

Next to love, kindness is the most beautiful thing.

Value a day only by the love that you gave away. Live every day,not by spending time,but by investing all the way. Dream a daybright with kindnessand a deep compassionate ray. See a day,not with the open eyes,but with the open mind from far away.

Don't be a leader to dictate, but be a person whom everyone wants to emulate and follow.

Some want to live within the soundOf church or chapel bell;I want to run a rescue shop,Within a yard of hell.

When you speak from your heart, the words ring true, but as you speak in anger, I'll only shed tears for you.

In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, "The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language." What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant!

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

I often cry, not from sadness, from the joy of the miraculous beauty of life.

We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.

The greatest wealth in life is love. The greatest gift to give away is to feel the joy of life and is also love.

When you realize who you are and why you're here, then peace will be there.

The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.

Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now and about removing the dualistic distinctions between "I" and "you" between "subject" and "objective", between our spiritual and our ordinary, everyday activities.

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of." Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath

To enjoy more, wonder more and smile more.

The secret of success is a pleasant personality with a sincere enthusiastic attitude.

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

I love, so I belong.

Success is never a place or position but a new state of self-realization.

If someone criticizes you, give them a compliment.

Oh! let me love forever. Let me die in love. Life is valueless dust if love touched you never.

If you are not trying to participate or win then you are trying to fail.

Yoga is a journey toward your inner core to find your inner bliss.

To find universal peace, teach yourself and everyone else to be kind, compassionate, and forgiving.

Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, So ... Love the people who treat you right and pray for the ones who don't. Life is 10% what you make it 90% how you take it.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind.

Memories are reality's ghosts

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Begin with a new goal and with a new enthusiasm to create abundance in your life.

Love is my strength, power, and shelter.

I didn't ask to be made a princess."This time all three of them laugh, although it is gentle enough."Who chooses their fate?" It is the third one, the tallest. "Who asks to be born into the times that are theirs?""Well, who accepts the world only as it comes to them?" she says, too quickly.

When someone comes to you, let them feel like they are in your universe where they belong.