Philosophy Quotes - Page 29

Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered.

You can elevate yourself to a level of higher consciousness simply by changing your thoughts, perceptions, and feelings.

Don't seek permission to be happy.

Ah! Let the soul dance with joy!

When you love someone deeply,Say it with a flower,And seal it with a kiss.

Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen.

Go for your dreams and get lost to find yourself again and again.

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.

To fill your heart with love, just love an innocent animal.

Science & Love have progressed "either" ways with growth of violence!

Summer arrives with the morning sun.Beach time breezes in with endless fun.

When pain is intense, you are at a climax. You can then see the light of transcendence.

We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.

Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Breath is the bridge that connects us with the mysteries of the universe and universal consciousness.

If you think that your hardest problem is what color shoes to wear.You should get out more!

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite.

You have compassion but by itself it is not enough. It is almost as if you carry around inside you some dead thing. Some heavy black cinder in your heart that burdens you; a ponderous anchor that tethers you to the past. Until you can burn it away, you can never truly live in the present, in the now. Until you can live in the now, you cannot see things as they really are. Meantime you are a man who is wilfully blind. You have eyes and yet you will not use them.

Consciousness is a state of existence where subjects are aware of their surroundings and can respond to its demands according to internal and external perceptions.

Love everyone you meet, everyone will love you.

Love is the language of the heart,which everyone understands.

Love is the beauty and ecstasy of life.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

When I see an evil person, I cannot believe that once he was an innocent and sweet baby.

I have no time to judge anyone because I am so busy to love everyone.

The primary feature of women is not a 'beauty', it's a 'mystery'.

Those who possess nothing and yet enjoy everything have no fear of losing anything.

If you try to find success in fame or in things, you will fail. If you find happiness is the process you will be a success.

It’s time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith.

If time is standing still, then why do we allow months and years to let us kill?

The little girl feels that her body is escaping her, that it is no longer the clear expression of her individuality: it becomes foreign to her; and at the same moment she is grasped by others as a thing: on the street, eyes follow her, her body is subject to comments; she would like to become invisible; she is afraid of becoming flesh and afraid to show her flesh.

The most important job in life is to find out the purpose of your life, and go for it wholeheartedly.

Your heart sees the beauty of life and your soul realizes the ecstasy of love.

Strive to be value oriented rather than success oriented.

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.

It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and this world straining against each other without being able to embrace each other. I ask for the rule— of life of that state, and what I am offered neglects its basis,negates one of the terms of the painful opposition, demands of me a resignation. I ask what is involved in the condition I recognize as mine; I know it implies obscurity and ignorance; and I am assured that this ignorance explains everything and that this darkness is mylight.

No matter how much struggle you face in your journey towards success, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone’s sake.”Vittoria was amazed at Kohler’s ability to weigh moral issues with scientific detachment. His intellect seemed to be the product of an icy divorce from his inner spirit. “You think CERN is so critical to the earth’s future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?

Life is a magical melody.

PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

We always glorify war, but why? We have war memorials everywhere but I never saw a peace memorial yet. We teach our children war game. We let them play game which is not other than a legal war but we expect peace from them. How foolish that could be!

We exist just to feel the joy of life.

Love, not because of beauty, because of who they are.

Wisdom is the essence of experiences.

Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right.

All is contained within the silence of death, the quietest and the loudest sound in the universe.

Don't sit around waiting for it to happen. Get out there and make it happen!

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

The moment the light of your being becomes bright, darkness will melt away to reveal the brightness of your consciousness.

The world will not get better, only we get and grow better.

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.

Morality without kindness is the most dangerous weapon.

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action you undertake, in any part of your knowledge and in its sum, from the first ray of light you perceive at the start of your life to the widest erudition you might acquire at its end.

I am in love, I became an angel; flowers bloom with my touch, birds comes to me and sing love song,air touches my cheeks to feel my love,leaves are dancing around me with the melody of love.Oh love, I am in love, I am the love.

I want to know the truth to set it free.

It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook