Philosophy Quotes - Page 189

An imaginative mind is a place where you can find magic.

I am not a teacher, I am a friend who cares.

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are extraordinary people all around us, who are capable of accumulating impressive amounts of knowledge within a relatively short period of time. Nevertheless, even the greatest genius possesses only a small fraction of all knowledge known by mankind. Finally, the following question arises: how large is all the existing knowledge in comparison to the space of ignorance?

We keep our eyes tightly shut and complain that there are no lights.

Freedom begins in the mind of the individual. You'll never be able to do a particular thing if you don't navigate your thoughts positively. Complaining and neglecting to take action creates stagnation. Free your mind and the rest will follow.

I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.

Once we experience divine guidance, we begin to make changes within ourselves, mentally, physically, and spiritually. We are no longer lost in the world, we can finally see. No longer blinded by the enemy.

If your leg is in a cast, it's really dumb to sit in front of your computer doing unnecessary stuff with it hanging down. Your leg will swell and heal slower, if at all. When you go to your doctor, he/she will give you one of those "you're really dumb and self destructive" looks. Also, "Why didn't you follow my orders and rest?" Your doctor will be right, and so will mine at my next office visit. Elevate, folk! Elevate your mind, your soul, and your leg, in the order needed!

YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise...embrace the entity of yourself...you are a puzzle piece and you are meant to be puzzling.

A face without a smile is like a sky without a sun.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Love, not for a purpose, love just for the sake of love.

The reality of life is that we are all living someone else's dream. Now that's everyone's fantasy.

She was a stranger. She came from a more beautiful fairytale than ours. But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people sometimes call ‘the monotony of life.’ Until that moment I’d been completely ignorant of such missionary work. I’d thoughts there was only two types people at least. There was the Orange Girl, and there were the rest of us.

One needn't stop dysfunction just evince and reflect.

A fool thinks that he can cheat others, but a prudent man knows that he can only cheat himself.

The only disability that I have, is that I'm human.

Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy.

I do not think it possible to convey the moral energy that went into this division between abstraction and realism, from both sides, in those years. It had an almost theological intensity, and in another stage of civilization there would certainly have been burnings at stake.

Only you can save yourself.

Jealousy is the art of burning yourself inside out.

Treat everyone with the sweetness of love and respect.

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

One man's fool is just another man's savior.

...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge … as an attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness…. and if we take this view, our notion of truth is marked out for us. Truth is the approximation of thought to reality … Its measure is the distance thought has travelled … toward that intelligible system … The degree of truth of a particular proposition is to be judged in the first instance by its coherence with experience as a whole, ultimately by its coherence with that further whole, all comprehensive and fully articulated, in which thought can come to rest.

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

Our actions are guaranteed to affect others. Because we are not alone in this world, much of our learning about ourselves comes from our interaction with others. Our relationships are our teachers. We learn from each other.

They may think I’m insane because I left my wonderful job. I may think they are insane because they don’t know the value of life.

Knowledge is abundant, but wisdom is rare.

Of course we're guilty!-That's what we've got pardons for!

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Be bold, be a success, and change the world.

Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with.

Education is a process of cultivating diamonds in a field called the mind.

The whole night I was thinking and dreaming to give you the most beautiful gift and that is my heart.

I would rather have a man chasing JESUS than a house full of stuffs and garrage filled with big cars.

The greatest Church is within you, and it is made of love, courage and conscience.

Oh! Let me love forever. Let me dream in love. Without power of love, life is a waterless river.

Nothing can contaminate the purity of my love—not even the dirt of hateful thoughts.

In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.

Learn to read deeply. It will slowly open your mind’s eye, and will be able to see the secret beauty of the universe and understand its deeper essence.

There is no life without change.

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment. Different schools of thought over the centuries have found different explanation for man's apparently inherently flawed state. Taoists call it imbalance, Buddism calls it ignorance, Islam blames our misery on rebellion against God, and the Judeo-Christian tradition attributes all our suffering to original sin. Freudians say that unhappiness is the inevitable result of the clash between our natural drives and civilization's needs. (As my friend Deborah the psychologist explains it: "Desire is the design flaw.") The Yogis, however, say that human discontentment is a simple case of mistaken identity. We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme Self who is eternally at peace. That supreme Self is our true identity, universal and divine. Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: "You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

If we learn to know that there is no enemy but we only have friend with misunderstanding then peace will be there.

I would like to invite everyone for the Third World War, but fight the war with love, not with the gun, to win the world peace. We all will be a winner.

In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

When the whole world is against you and all you know seems lost. Know that God is right there standing at your side ready to catch you and put you back on your own two feet again.

In matters of love, spread kindness like a flower.

Never dwell in resentment, but never forget to learn from the reflection.

Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.

The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point

A week is an eternity between lovers.

Nothing can stop you from achieving your goals if you have a deep driving persistent desire.

A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination.

Be vibrant, vital, vivacious, vigorous, and victorious with adventure and love.