Philosophy Quotes - Page 2

Always be respectful and open-minded when listening to another man's beliefs. What you reject today could be your mantra tomorrow. Man's evolution is all about transformations. An unexpected experience you have one day can change you forever.

A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, "Oh good! I love a mystery. Let's see if we can solve this one, too. Do you have any ideas?

Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure.

When confidence is there, conviction is easy.

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

Choose carefully. Success in life depends on the choices you make.

When you love someone, it's the most real thing in the universe.

Some people radiate happiness and make every one happy around them.

There are many roads even though you have only one destination.

I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

Remember that everything that is happening around you, good or bad, is in some way conspiring to help you.

În clipa când ți se impune să nu te gândești la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație.

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the valley like a waterfall, like a tidal wave, all the leaves of the hardwoods from here to Hudson’s Bay. It was as if the season’s colors were draining away like lifeblood, as if the year were molting and shedding. The year was rolling down, and a vital curve had been reached, the tilt that gives way to headlong rush. And when the monarch butterflies had passed and were gone, the skies were vacant, the air poised. The dark night into which the year was plunging was not a sleep but an awakening, a new and necessary austerity, the sparer climate for which I longed. The shed trees were brittle and still, the creek light and cold, and my spirit holding its breath.

Be simple, stay humble, care with love, hug with kindness.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

An attitude of gratitude fills a heart with happiness.

True love doesn't expect anything but it does gives everything

So that others can live in peace, talk about love and peace wherever you go.

Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong.

This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

We travel to see the reflection of our minds on the mirror of changes so that we may enrich ourselves.

When you share your knowledge, you gain wisdom. Share as much as you can and as often as you can.

There is only one moment; its events are infinitely unfolding, increasing at every passing second—meaning that they were somehow compressed before. This moment was never smaller, but less beauty was exposed in the physical form, yet still this flower blooms. I think we tend to see time as the events alone; in this sense, we view objects as a means of measurement to time. But we forget the place of events in time is change. I am the measurement to my own happiness; time is the breadth of that beauty, and that beauty is the measurement of this moment’s grandeur. Somehow compressed, potential beauty was enfolded infinitely from the start of time, and now waits in vain for its fullest blossoming.The fact that there is a progression to time proves that time is not infinite; you can’t approach infinity. Time is more like a dot, expanding on a plane that is infinite; but that dot may as well not be growing, because the plane that its on is growing too. Stagnant, this explains what we call “now” that moment, ever unfolding; matter changes, but not the moment; the only proof that a past exists is our memories. What did it feel like to be four? Like now. My memories of a past are an illusion, because they take place in the now, the one moment.

Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?

In a corner you condense yourself and cry- in the same corner you caress and kiss. Life is this, something different each time.

All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.

WORDS SHLD BE FREE. RELEASE THEM FROM THEIR SENTENCES.

In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed that life can be fixed up. In Europe the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.

There is only one way to happiness and that is through service.

The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker.

Now you may hear songs of kindness From every singing bird And from every dancing heart Let kindness be the part of your being

A tree sings to us with her beauty and her love. It is our responsibility to listen to her music.

Life is a university, you will keep learning new things all the time. The tombstone will be your degree.Make sure it's worth a fortune for those who admire you.

Let your love be your guide. Let your courage be your driver, and let your passion be your road to enjoy this magnificent life to the fullest.

A busy life is often full of nonsense but empty of essence.

On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect,and reflected with astonishment and pityon the madness of the multitude.

We are very simple human until we learn to use the power of our divine love.

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.

Every successful person has had to overcome the fear of failure.

Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.

Things always become obvious after the fact

I follow many great religions. Body is my temple. Love is my religion. Peace is my religion. Happiness is my religion.

The breeze at the beach has a secret song in her heart which always lures us back.

World seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing.

A true education prepares you not only for living but also for life.

My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

Success in business is important. Success as a human being with values, character, kindness, and love is much more important.

We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.

Everyone comes into your life to fulfill a purpose of their life. So help them with love, kindness, and care.

...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

I don't desire to be intelligent, but I do desire to be loving and kind.

The joy of having no friends is that I can do anything I want; when I want.The downside is, that I have no one to share it with.

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

Pray within. Stay within. Seek, find the Within. For, there's no heaven or hell or god anywhere but herein.