Philosophy Quotes - Page 230

Our path may be different but our purpose of journey is the same.

Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.

On even the darkest of days, the brightest thing in my life is you.

Being a billionaire helps when you live in a slum and have to eat scraps of food and drink dirty water.

You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.

Don’t wait for opportunity in front of a closed door—wander until you find the open one.

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysiqueWhen he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

The best advice will come from the person who has no personal interest in the matter.

Our actions let us walk and live. Our imaginations let us fly. So be action oriented and never forget to dream.

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in general inclines to the outer and knows nothing of the inner.

For all of my life, I am digging deep in my heart to find the liquid gold of love to share.

Do what gives you joy and you will enjoy what you do.

Because of you, I can see and realize the beauty of life.

To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shall hear yet greater things.

Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.

I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, feed everyone with my nectar of love fruits, and purify the air with my calmly dancing leaves.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

The more you give, the more you will have the ability to give.

Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.

Every morning is a big, bright, window that opens just for you to fill your life with the light of joy.

The most amazing people are those who love life and humanity.

Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.

THESE ARE THE REASONS, THEN, FOR WHICH A MAN CAN BE CONFIDENT ABOUT THE FATE OF HIS SOUL – AS LONG AS IN LIFE HE HAS…DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THE PLEASURES OF AQUIRING KNOWLEDGE …WITH SELF CONTROL, AND GOODNESS, AND COURAGE, AND LIBERALITY, AND TRUTH…”SOCRATES’ LAST WORDS IN PLATO’S PHAEDO

It is that little bit of extra attention that makes all the difference.

Success is living life with all of its songs and melodies, triumphs and tragedies.

Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.

Dare to feel the joy of life even in the midst of misery.

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

Saying "thank you" signifies sense of gratitude, but it also implies your incapability.

I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.

People with evil ideas will think and do as they have learned, but those people with good ideas have the responsibility to show them the way of love, way of truth, and the way of peace.

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

Hatred is a curse that only love can cure.

When there is no cure, give the hope and share the possibility. Shine the light of miracle in the darkness of impossibility.

Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanità dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarrà dopo i quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia.

What we do is what means the most.

What you are searching for with love, life will give you.

Love is the magic, mystery, and the beauty of life.

All knowledge is born in the mind, and circumstances make them manifest.

To illuminate the world, let your love shine like the morning sun.

We must not learn to try harder. The key is to learn how not to try in the first place.

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.

A borrower who doesn't returns is a beggar.

The moon is the same but the observers are different.

Now Christianity proposes a completely different account of how history comes to a climax and what precisely constitutes the new order of the ages—which helps to explain why so many of modernity’s avatars, from Diderot to Christopher Hitchens, have specially targeted Christianity. On the Christian reading, history reached its highpoint when a young first-century Jewish rabbi, having been put to death on a brutal Roman instrument of torture, was raised from the dead through the power of the God of Israel. The state-sponsored murder of Jesus, who had dared to speak and act in the name of Israel’s God, represented the world’s resistance to the Creator. It was the moment when cruelty, hatred, violence, and corruption—symbolized in the Bible as the watery chaos—spent itself on Jesus. The resurrection, therefore, showed forth the victory of the divine love over those dark powers. St. Paul can say, “I am certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God,” precisely because he lived on the far side of the resurrection.

Il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s'apprend pas; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

A good attitude is the best attire.

It's Unfair to be fair,For Life is unfair

Tomorrow, today will be yesterday, and tomorrow will be today. By the nature of time when tomorrow will shift to become today, we demystify the notion that we are powerless in the face of the future, as the future will become the present moment naturally. On the basis that tomorrow will also eventually become yesterday, we can fundamentally note that time converges through yesterday, today, and tomorrow to where the essence of our very existence converges in the present moment.

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, integral connectedness and organic unity of all thinking, feeling, and desiring. At the same time, self-reflection reveals that this connected unity is the ultimate reality that can be reached. "Consciousness cannot go behind itself." Whatever we propose to think forms part of this organic unity of our mind and is a result or consequence of it. There is no means of jumping beyond consciousness, and any attempt to explain with the help of any other imaginary system the radical connectedness in which we live and that is our mind would be absurd. Our mind is the very presupposition of all explanation. For to explain a phenomenon means, in the last instance, to point out its place and its part within the living economy of consciousness, and to determine the "meaning" it has in the original source of all meaning: life.

Lying is an art, if you can convince yourself with lie, then you are a master.

Just being around her made me feel better. She had an amber shade aura to her that filled any cracks and brokenness I hadn't yet fixed. I could be myself around her, knowing full well she held on as I let go.

It is almost always better to listen and understand than express opinions to annoy.

To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.3. Charity is immoral.4. Pay for your own fucking schools.

Be an artist, see the beauty not only with your eyes but also with your heart.