Philosophy Quotes - Page 36

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of "world history"- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.

Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.

Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater.

Let kindness be the flower of your heart and fragrance of your mind. Let it fill the world with peace, joy and the fragrance of kindness.

If women are so smart, how come hardly any philosophers have been, and now are, female?

Successful companies are built by investing large amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

Love the peace not the war,love the humanity and take care.

While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work harder to beat them.

[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it's simplicity.

It was a burden on all her muscles. A hollow deeper than her bones. She braced herself though, she knew why Atlas stood so tall.

You are my love, you are my light, you are my blue sky, when I am vanishing in you only then I can fly.

But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the winds?

The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful, willing to take and follow reason further than the putatively undogmatic unbelieving philosopher

See a day,not with the open eyes,but with the open mind from far away.

I have tried to live my life with no regrets. Because regrets will become guilt in some cases, and guilt eats away at your sanity.

My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.

To find beauty all around you, fill yourself with self-love.

When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. Love means nothing in tennis,But it's everything in life

When you enjoy the little beauties in and around you, it costs you nothing.

War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.

There is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 'See, this is new?' it had been already of old time, which was before us.

Avoid judging others by trying to understand others and their concepts of love and care.

If you expect love, don't forget to love someone.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather frominside out.

So, am I some sort of Savior? Not hardly. Save yourself the worry about needing to be saved from anything.

Man is a plant, and its gardener. But it is only his soil that lets him rise, and it is only gardening himself, that may allow him to bear fruit.

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.

We co-create our reality with others in unseen ways.

We are what we build

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

At this moment, I have nothing to do or ponder except love and wonder.

I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

Make your habits your beloved home.

A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity, but the moment, that person starts to build a wall of separation between the self and the rest of humanity, coaxed by the textual commands of a scripture, the healthy religiousness turns into dangerous fundamentalism, which is a threat to both the self and the society.

If someone ridicules you, say to him, I love you.

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.

Time is standing still like the sun. We are the ones moving around time like planets orbiting the sun.

I am the river of love, I am the flow of life.

My touchstone for following a line of wisdom is; ‘living the philosophy should bring freedom to the individual, and love, wisdom and compassion to society, to our relationships’.

As an atom, so is the universe. As is a drop of water, so is an ocean.

In the end, we always regret the life we failed to live.

Make every moment of life a moment of joy.

My poems - they sprang from the depths of my being.

Today—be the white clouds full of dreams and hopes in someone’s sky.

Loneliness is the best way to realize that you are not alone..

It’s a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . ‘By this act, I bring one death into the world.’ One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . . whether they live or not.

If you have to fall in love, fall in love with the magnificent beauty of a sunset. That love will beautify yourself and your world.

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense. This is no limit to His power. If you choose to say, ‘God can give a creature free will and at the same time withhold free will from it,’ you have not succeeded in saying anything about God: meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words, 'God can.' It remains true that all things are possible with God: the intrinsic impossibilities are not things but nonentities. It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.

This moment is a moment of beauty.

If you can find happiness inside of you, nothing will be able to create angst in your mind.

We try to show that the well-ordered society of justice as fairness is indeed possible according to our nature and those requirements. This endeavor belongs to political philosophy as reconciliation; for seeing that the conditions of a social world at least allow for that possibility affects our view of the world itself and our attitude toward it. No longer need it seem hopelessly hostile, a world in which the will to dominate and oppressive cruelties, abetted by prejudice and folly, must inevitably prevail. None of these may ease our loss, situated as we may be in a corrupt society. But we may reflect that the world is not in itself inhospitable to political justice and its good. Our social world might have been different and there is hope for those at another time and place