Philosophy Quotes - Page 183

When consciousness is there, can life be far away?

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity.

There wouldn't be life without colour.

Every life has a divine purpose and that is to be happy.

No Goodbye'The floods of tears,Flow for thee,As I remember how it used to be.Your gentle touch,Your tender caress,Your scented perfume,Your tender kiss.But things do change,In the blink of an eye,An errant driver,No goodbyes.All I remember,Is how it was,Before that fatal night,When all was lost."I love you.

The prime purposes of our lives is to help others, love others, and be kind to others.

Unnecessary violence against animals is a heinous crime. Be a voice for those who do not have one.

Newton invented a new form of reason. He expanded reason to handle infinitesimal changes and I think what is needed now is a similar expansion of reason to handle technological ugliness. The trouble is that the expansion has to be made at the roots, not at the branches, and that’s what makes it hard to see.

Life has its ugliness and ups and downs, but look for the beauty and you will find it.

Keep hope alive to be happy.

Mma Ramotswe had listened to a World Service broadcast on her radio one day which had simply taken her breath away. It was about philosophers who called themselves existentialists and who, as far as Mma Ramotswe could ascertain, lived in France. These French people said that you should just live in a way which made you feel real, and that the real thing to do was the right thing too. Mma Ramotswe had listened in astonishment. You did not have to go to France to meet existentialists, she reflected; there were many existentialists right here in Botswana. Note Mokoti, for example. She had been married to an existentialist herself, without even knowing it. Note, that selfish man who never once put himself out for another--not even for his wife--would have approved of existentialists, and they of him. It was very existentialist, perhaps, to go out to bars every night while your pregnant wife stayed at home, and even more existentialist to go off with girls--young existentialist girls--you met in bars. It was a good life being an existentialist, although not too good for all the other, nonexistentialist people around one.

The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the breath of a living love knowing when to protect, when to release, and when to protect again. For we are the products of an active love - the Father the creator, the Son the perfecter, the Spirit the supervisor - but just like in a factory, to deny the process is to ultimately create a defect of oneself.

you got a sad story, ruth,' mimba said. 'but not sad-sad. you here with me and cato and all us together now. you have a happy-sad story. best you can get in this life is happy-sad. but you always gotta remember your own mama that birthed you. even though you only got a crumb of her story, you still got to say her name out loud. you always honor your dead, else you get trouble from them, sure.

We live our lives with hope, intentions, and actions. Without hope, there will be no intention. Without intention, there will be no action.

Is it not beautiful to discover a new path to your destiny and decorate it with the beauty of your imagination?

When you find a best friend, you become two flowers blooming from the same bud.

Oh, why does compassion weaken us?'It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.

The most wonderful things that life can offer do not have price tags.

A starry night moon looks at you with admiration because in her eyes you are a star.

The elegance of the moon teaches us to be elegant and kind.

Storm clouds will always ignite the darker side of my passion.

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

In this forest of humanity we hate each other more than we love each other. When we will learn to love each other, only then we will see the peace.

The best way to live a stress-free life is to learn how to swim in the ocean of uncertainty.

Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

You will get what you want, but you have to expect it with your open heart.

Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her.

You can love everyone, but you can never hurt anyone else without hurting yourself. You will burn yourself for the rest of your life with this fire and agony.

To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.

...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.

If you're KING be aware of KINGS!

You are beautiful. You are unique. Your heart holds celestial love which flows like a mighty river through you to nourish the universe.

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

Life is about the moments you create, that you can keep it with you FOREVER. After everything is over,That is what we have or what we are left with.

Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity.

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper. By refusing to say ‘It is,’ you are refusing to say ‘I am.’ By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person. When a man declares: ‘Who am I to know?’- he is declaring: ‘Who am I to live?

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

When your mind is overflowing with peace, you will find peace all around you.

Believe in your purposes. Define yourself endlessly.

Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going.

Smiles are very contagious so infect everyone with your smiles.

A great mystery lies in the repetition and continuity of the renewal of that which is past. Culture perpetuates itself in memory and the big job is the reawakening of memory.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Happiness is not a destination but a choice.

The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, tennis, research-clamored for his attention. But today nothing seemed important. He suspected that nothing had ever been important, that his mind had arbitrarily imbued projects with importance and then cunningly covered its traces. Today he saw through the ruse of a lifetime. Today there was nothing important to do, and he ambled aimlessly down Union Street.

The highest freedom of mind comes from becoming non-judgmental.

Ultimately, you are defined by your kindness, compassion, passion, and choice.

The secret of success in life is the persistent practice of making choices.

Your whole being is deeply troubled- personified the vision of a child's purity, lost in the wilderness of an ever-unchanging and imperfect world.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I have three powers to win the world: my omnipotent love, my omnipresent kindness, and my omniscient compassion.

Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism.

Everything that you can touch with pure love belongs to you.

A winner keeps playing until the winning shot.