Philosophy Quotes - Page 240

There are many kinds of truth: societal truths, religious truths, fundamental truths, scientific truths, and universal truths. Your truth should be what you can trust with your heart.

I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is,But because I love it, and that’s why I love it,Because when you love you never know what you love,Or why you love, or what love is.Loving is eternal innocence,And the only innocence is not thinking.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

Life’s biggest enemy is time. It kills us slowly as the illusion changes.

No matter where you are, you are just one thought away from happiness. Forget everything; just think about happiness and everything will change.

Success is important but what you become on the way to success is more important.

A good swordsman is more important than a good sword.

Your value and self-worth is not found in your former lover, not in the loving words of they spoke, not in the gentle ways that they held you, not in the sweetness of their kiss; but found in the love that you have for yourself.

Find someone who loves you enough to forgive you for all of your mistakes.

Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute

Is it better to be loved or feared?

Before giving up, try hard.

Treat destiny as the brainchild of passage.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

We become happier by advancing our understanding of life and by finding its endless beauty.

For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only too well. I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow, and suddenly confronted by the work of a dozen busy navvies digging the foundations of a house. I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer master, but an animal among animals; under the Martian heel.

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

To make life beautiful--every time you think--think about the amazing beauty of life.

There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is far more difference than similarity, in respect both of the matter and the manner of our thought. For while they are confident that the cosmos is perfect, we are sure only that it is very beautiful. While they pass to their conclusion without the aid of intellect, we have used that staff every step of the way. Thus, even when in respect of conclusions we agree with your mystics rather than your plodding intellectuals, in respect of method we applaud most your intellectuals; for they scorned to deceive themselves with comfortable fantasies.

I feel lucky for my upbringing and tremendous adversity, which made me so successful, now I like to devote my life to improve lives of others, who are facing adversity every day.

Think that today is the best day of your life and, with love and kindness, change yourself to begin the first day of the rest of your existing life.

Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

If a faithful account was rendered of man's ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word Gods has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed; that he applies this term when the spring of natural, the source of known causes ceases to be visible: as soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his gods; thus giving a vague definition to an unknown cause, at which either his idleness, or his limited knowledge, obliges him to stop. When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon, the novelty or the extent of which strikes him with wonder, but of which his ignorance precludes him from unravelling the true cause, or which he believes the natural powers with which he is acquainted are inadequate to bring forth; does he, in fact, do any thing more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has been accustomed to listen with reverential awe?

If not love, then what? If not now, then when?

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Do not be ashamed of your past. Learn from those experiences and move forward in your life. Teach others of the possibilities of change & living victoriously. You are a survivor.

We must not forget the beauty of humanity. At the core of our being, we must love humanity.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

A leader is solution oriented and a philosopher is problem oriented.

The Greeks who rhapsodized about democracy in their rhetoric rarely created democratic institutions. A few cities such as Athens occasionally attempted a system vaguely akin to democracy for a few years. These cities functioned as slave societies and were certainly not egalitarian or democratic in the Indian sense.

Every sunrise gives you an opportunity to begin again.

Failure gives you the experience and the wisdom to be a success in the future.

A genius is no more—and no less—than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.

...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.

Only your thoughts can bring you happiness.

It's when we kiss that I feel your blood within my veins and your heartbeat within my soul.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Eventually we all get tired of any and everything!

He is the best fighter who fights with love for the world peace.

I am a bit old fashion but I believe in prayer, I believe prayer can move mountain. Prayer might not be our responsibility but it is a good starting place. It can give us heaven's prospectives on human problems. I know we need to do a bit more than pray but that doesn't mean we don't need to pray.

In this vast universe when I was getting lost, you made me infinite with infinite love.

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

Fall in love again and again.In life, love is the currency, spend it as much you can for an enormous gain.

I love brooding in a bucolic valley about your endless compassion.

Death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

From kindness comes courage.

And they danced with laughter and tears. They swung each other round and round, the first and last time in years.

Realize that you are deeply limitless. Your potential is unlimited.

I am ceaselessly waiting for you in the burning fire of waiting forever. It may not end today, tomorrow, or ever.

The biggest and grandest adventure in life is life itself.

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

I love you as I love the air that surrounds me, without knowing that my life depends on it.

Every moment you lose your temper, you lose a moment of opportunity to love.

Prayer or worship does not therefore grant a free pass to selfishness ...

Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go.

Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.

Find the window of unconditional love in your heart and liberate yourself from the prison of judgemental and conforming thoughts.

Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their personal feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters they have weaved. And in a curious way, without them really knowing it, writers are the sum total of the characters they created in their heads or in their writings. Yes, My Dear Tania; writers are capable of reflecting their characters, even though most of them are determined to be just like your ordinary guy next door.

The world is a giant zoo. The trouble is, not all of the animals are civilized.