Philosophy Quotes - Page 33

College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did not—intellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty of time to think, and somewhere between all that fear and dread, I'd realized that was the wrong reason to go to college. That the potential for those things had been inside of me all along, only I'd never realized because I hadn't believed myself strong enough to break free without an intermediary.

Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man.

If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds—even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.

To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.

He accepted new ideas as readily as new trends. Knowing those worth it would last and the lessers will pass.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

I am not upset that you don't love me, I am very happy to know that you are still living in my heart, in my love.

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.

Come, let us build bridges of love with each other with the cement of kindness and pillars of trust.

For those who have a great attitude, their life fills with an abundance of beauty, which deserves gratitude.

In the big scheme of things, it’s the little things that matter

Her maktul katilinde yaşamaya devam eder.

I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what we should perceive with our inner sight, while what we listen to with our ears is merely a ringing sound disturbing what we should understand with our hearts. When we see a man being taken to prion by a police officer let us not hasten to assume he is a wrong-doer. When we see a corpse, and a man standing beside it with bloodstained hands, let us not conclude that this is a victim and his assassin. When we hear one man singing and another lamenting, let us ascertain which one of the two is truly happy.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

Love is looking for you when you are looking for love.

The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.

People should respect those who have the courage to go alone through life.

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

You never can grow unless you change. So fear the stagnation and embrace the change.

There are two kinds of people:those who learned to love and those who didn't.

For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not at all think of them.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.

Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?

Success is a way of life, which progressively expands your joyfulness, happiness, and fulfillment.

The oceans and seas are forces which, if you forget, they will gladly remind you.

They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words. And [experience] has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy: on experience, the mistress of their masters.

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

When you love, lover is loving you.

Sex is a powerful intent to create: the creation of pleasure, creation of love, and ultimately the creation of life. It connects and syncs two beings emotionally, physically, and mentally and is one of the strongest expressions of love that exists in this World.

The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.

Nothingness is the basis of everything that exists today. It's the mother of creation & consciousness!

To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change.

Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed.

Open your heart! Dance with joy and love.

Enlighten everyone you meet in your journey of life with the light of your love and kindness.

Romance is an illusion of love and excitement that touches our hearts and mind. It lingers in our memories like a fairy tale.

The most pleasant surprise is to get lost in the beauty of life.

Wherever you go, go with love, but never leave hope behind.

As it is, the vital question you should be asking is not what I am, but what you yourself are.

As is so often the way, what we have suppressed and overlooked issomething startlingly obvious. The difficulty is that it is so obvious andbasic that one can hardly find the words for it. The Germans call it aHintergedanke, an apprehension lying tacitly in the back of our mindswhich we cannot easily admit, even to ourselves. The sensation of "I" asa lonely and isolated center of being is so powerful andcommonsensical, and so fundamental to our modes of speech andthought, to our laws and social institutions, that we cannot experienceselfhood except as something superficial in the scheme of the universe. Iseem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time—arare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe ofbiological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual,sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment only tovanish forever. Under such conditioning it seems impossible and evenabsurd to realize that myself does not reside in the drop alone, but in thewhole surge of energy which ranges from the galaxies to the nuclearfields in my body. At this level of existence "I" am immeasurably old;my forms are infinite and their comings and goings are simply thepulses or vibrations of a single and eternal flow of energy.

Babies are living dolls with dancing smiles that come from the stars to still our hearts.

Nothing great can be achieved without great love.

Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.andJust because you don't have a heart, doesn't make you heartless.Now, does it?

...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test their talents. These latent talents will only help to produce the next cycle of dropouts...

The war for peace can destroy the whole world.

Some people are born to make a Point... And some to make money... No COMPARATIVE analogy exists

For any given problem, if there's a simple solution it will already have been applied. So, perhaps, the solution isn't as simple as you think.

Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

A child’s laughter is one of the most beautiful things on this earth. It can fill the whole world with passionate joy.

Winning has a value for ego, but participation has a value for life.

Like our muscles, our thinking power grows when we struggle.

Be yourself to find the uniqueness of the universe.

If integrity was legal, honesty would be a crime.

I agree that sometimes it is difficult to choose between right and wrong, but not between right and stupid.

I bargained with Life for a penny,And Life would pay no more, However I begged at eveningWhen I counted my scanty store;For Life is just an employer,He gives you what you ask,But once you have set the wages,Why, you must bear the task.I worked for a menial's hire,Only to learn, dismayed,That any wage I had asked of Life,Life would have paid.

Your life has tremendous value to you. It becomes a precious diamond for humanity to enjoy when you donate it for the betterment of others.

The power of intention can open the door of opportunity and transform a valley of trouble into a triumph of joy.