Philosophy Quotes - Page 20

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

Focus on peace not on war.Love, live, share and care. Focus on kindness not on hate.Bliss will flow to open the gate.Focus on joy, not on hurt or fear.The earth will dance, peace to share.

Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

In the fall of leaves,In the hustle of breeze,In the curve of streams, I foresee,Nature keeps more concealed,Than it lets us peep!

Was that what it was all about? To know everything—the ultimate quest of the philosopher, to comprehend the universe from the highest heaven down to the dirt upon the Earth. And Wolfdon desired to go there too, wherever “there” might be.

We are as happy as we think we are.

True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure—not from success.

Be bold! Be a success and change the world.

Life gives us the greatest opportunity to serve and be happy.

Just think how beautiful you can be if kindness is your ornament of beauty.

When you are loving someone, that someone is loving you, too. That is the universal law. No exception.

Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.

I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However, I don't know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what is bothering me. I don't treat it and never have, though I respect medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, let's say sufficiently so to respect medicine. (I am educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am.) No, I refuse to treat it out of spite. You probably will not understand that. Well, but I understand it. Of course I can't explain to you just whom I am annoying in this case by my spite. I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "get even" with the doctors by not consulting them. I know better than anyone that I thereby injure only myself and no one else. But still, if I don't treat it, its is out of spite. My liver is bad, well then-- let it get even worse!

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?

It is never too late to begin again. It is never too late to change and live again.

I believe only in the religion which spreads the word of nonjudgmental love.

In life, you achieve nirvana when you learn to love unconditionally.

The most important decision that we can make in our lives is the decision to be happy.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ the beauty of a single sycamore. tYou are Xerxes in Persia. Your army spreads on a vast and arid peneplain…you call to you all your sad captains, and give the order to halt. You have seen the tree with the lights in it, haven’t you? You must have. Xerxes buffeted on a plain, ambition drained in a puff. Your men are bewildered…there is nothing to catch the eye in this flatness, nothing but a hollow, hammering sky, a waste of sedge in the lee of windblown rocks, a meager ribbon of scrub willow tracing a slumbering watercourse…and that sycamore. You saw it; you will stand rapt and mute, exalted, remembering or not remembering over a period of days to shade your head with your robe. t“He had its form wrought upon a medal of gold to help him remember it the rest of his life.” We all ought to have a goldsmith following us around. But it goes without saying, doesn’t it, Xerxes, that no gold medal worn around your neck will bring back the glad hour, keep those lights kindled so long as you live, forever present? Pascal saw it; he grabbed pen and paper and scrawled the one word, and wore it sewn in his shirt the rest of his life. I don’t know what Pascal saw. I saw a cedar. Xerxes saw a sycamore.

Don't try to touch the love, it may burn, just try feel it with your heart.

Your universe grows when you are learning.

If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest.

Talent & skills are useless & won't get you anywhere, without lot of practise, commitment & prioritization.

Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.

We go from one war to another; we go from one terrorist group to another and we go from one calamity to another, but there is a pattern there if you know where to look.It's amazing how one when one war is about to end, another miraculously pops its head up.Coincidence? Hmmm...I'm highly skeptical.However, a lot of money seems to go into these 'wars' and there always seems to be little change left at the end of it.Like I said in my other quote..."War! Someone's making a hell of a lot of money!

No matter where you are, just be grateful for your life and all of the beauty that surrounds you.

Happiness is an inner perception, inner joyfulness. We are happy when we express our kindness unconditionally. We are happy when we love some one unconditionally. By becoming the source of happiness for some one we become happy. Happiness is the purpose of every creation.

The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional

Create memories every day. Enjoy every moment every way.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Imagination is a roller coaster ride in search of ideas and beauty into the wonderland of subconscious and conscious mind.

Be mindful and love yourself.

No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change.

Education is the ultimate power of life. A better education gives you better power.

I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my senses. That there are immaterial and intelligent substances I do not at all doubt; but that it is impossible for God to communicate the faculty of thinking to matter, I doubt very much. I revere the Eternal Power, to which it would ill become me to prescribe bounds. I affirm nothing, and am contented to believe that many things are possible than are usually thought so".

You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest.

Although her disobedience is tragic, Eve’s innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence leads her to make a poor choice - the very worst - but the fact that she makes a choice at all, the fact that she engages the Devil in a debate which could go either way, the fact that she acts without God breathing down her neck - all speak for her free will or, what amounts to the same thing, her margin for error. It is from this margin for error that freedom springs, because you can’t be free to right unless you can be free to be wrong.

From personal experience, I know for sure that the number one thing that saddens the dead more than our grief — is not being conscious of their existence around us. They do want you to talk to them as if they were still in a physical body. They do want you to play their favorite music, keep their pictures out, and continue living as if they never went away. However, time and "corruption" have blurred the lines between the living and the dead, between man and Nature, and between the physical and the etheric. There was a time when man could communicate with animals, plants, the ether, and the dead. To do so requires one to access higher levels of consciousness, and this knowledge has been hidden from us. Why? Because then the plants would tell us how to cure ourselves. The animals would show us their feelings, and the dead would tell us that good acts do matter. In all, we would come to know that we are all one. And most importantly, we would be alerted of threats and opportunities, good and evil, truth vs. fiction. We would have eyes working for humanity from every angle, and this threatens "the corrupt". Secret societies exist to hide these truths, and to make sure lies are preserved from generation to generation.

Everyone is trying to impress everyone else, trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.

Our lives begin to end when we begin to forget to love.

Do not fear adversity. Win it over. It will make you wiser and stronger.

Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying but the bird has already grown her wings.

How much you can love others without expectations will define who you are.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

We become angels when we fly with the wings of love. We can reach any destination and touch any heart without any hesitation.

Expectations create and shape reality.

objectivity is subjective

To find beauty, rise above conformity and find opportunities.

Your "look-alike" may be the result of one of the various possible futures happening simultaneously!

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.

The great lie is like a sword that has been thrust into the heart of humankind.

Only the great power of love can make you great.

Biggest tragedy of life is when God ask us to glorify Him for our sakes but we choose to glorify self for satan's good.