Philosophy Quotes - Page 21

And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak,Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that tiesMy hair...now could I but unloose my soul!We are sepulchred alive in this close world,And want more room.

It is not acceptable that election winners interpret history. History should be left to historians who have a difficult task. They should try to avoid a one-sided or personal interpretation of history. Furthermore, some collective factors (such as national enthusiasm) may influence objectivity that is crucial for the interpretation of historical events.

Don't fuckin' sleep on yourself

To refresh our lives, let us forget and forgive and begin anew.

Never hurt a woman because she is someone’s mother or will be someone’s mother. Could you hurt your mother?

The best way to be happy is to be kind to someone.

Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.

If you have experienced recurring situations in your life that are unpleasant, know that there is something you are supposed to be getting from those situations that you have not been getting and that the moment you get it, those situations will pass out of your life, not to return.

To create new rules, use the power of love, courage, and kindness to break the rules.

The world is God's salvation.

I love the vastness of the ocean. I love its serenity, tranquility, humility, and purifying power.

The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.

Success is defined, not by what you achieve in life, but by what you do for others without expectations.

Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

Paint your life with the magnificent colors of a joyful sunset.

For once,engulf,not air,but hope.For once,breathe on,a firm belief!

Love is the thread with which we connect to the world.

Let us trust the power of love,and fly by spreading the wings of love.

Act to create beauty without expecting results.

Peace is not an option, it is the only option.

Love has no distance or barrier, it's instantaneous.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

What is the meaning of life? What is our purpose on earth? These are some of the great, false questions of religion. We need not answer them, for they are badly posed, but we can live our answers all the same. At a minimum, we can create the conditions for human flourishing in this life--the only life of which any of us can be certain. That means we should not terrify our children with thoughts of hell or poison them with hatred for infidels. We should not teach our sons to consider women their future property or convince our daughters that they are property even now. And we must decline to tell our children that human history began with bloody magic and will end with bloody magic in a glorious war between the righteous and the rest.

I don't care what you have done in the past or will do in the future, I will still love you forever.

Nothing is sweeter than being unapologetically you. Don't live your life just to impress others. Reveal your truth, Express your love, Live your dreams.

Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

Let the beauty of love bloom like a flower, and then welcome everyone you meet with that flower.

Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations can never be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.

It's the little things that make big things happen.

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak?

Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?

I have never felt so alive—so free—so proud. I love my country. I love my America.

Our thoughts, imaginations, and actions are what make us into who we are.

Teach a child not to seek help but to seek the opportunity to help others.

An optimist sees the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

Hope has magic in it, it can create a door when there is none.

Be as peaceful as a dancing spring flower.

When I found you, I found my world where I can get lost without any reason.

If you encounter defeat, you must persist to be a winner.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve.

For peace, living in harmony is essential.

Man is an end in himself.

lose weight, eat backwards.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

My heart is the refuge where you will find everlasting love.

Think of the good that Christ imparted on the society. And think of the great evil that has been done through fanaticism over one damn phrase “salvation through Christ, the Son of God.

When I was very young and in the cave of Trophonius I forgot to laugh. Then, when I got older, when I opened my eyes and saw the real world, I began to laugh and I haven’t stopped since. I saw that the meaning of life was to get a livelihood, that the goal of life was to be a High Court judge, that the bright joy of love was to marry a well-off girl, that the blessing of friendship was to help each other out of a financial tight spot, that wisdom was what the majority said it was, that passion was to give a speech, that courage was to risk being fined 10 rix-dollars, that cordiality was to say ‘You’re welcome’ after a meal, and that the fear of God was to go to communion once a year. That’s what I saw. And I laughed.

God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.

It is true love that can activate the beauty and power of true genius.

A man's vanity often goes hand in hand with his lack of knowledge.

Kindness is soft and beautiful like a fresh flower.

You think that you're in control of your life.Well, think again.

Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use, and even the Supreme Court has admitted that the original perspective of the American social contract has been altered by the passage of time.

‎In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being created and destroyed. The existence of these particles is no mathematical fiction. Though they cannot be directly observed, the effects they create are quite real. The assumption that they exist leads to predictions that have been confirmed by experiment to a high degree of accuracy.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

An obstacle is an opportunity in disguise.

The universe is a mirror—if you smile at her, she smiles at you with joy.

A baby is a symbol of hope for the future.