Philosophy Quotes - Page 37

Love and kindness are in the root of all creations.

If you love everyone, how will you ever find an enemy?

Peace is not only the absence of violence, but the presence of love, kindness, compassion and harmony.

None of us understand the infinite universe. Most people who start thinking about it, get overwhelmed, shrug their shoulders, and turn their attention back to something mundane, like drinking beer or watching TV. Only a few great minds have ever actually contemplated the nature of the universe. Fewer still have done it without going insane.

To find joy in life, it is our responsibility and duty to love and serve others.

God endlessly fails to extend his blessings. That is because he no longer sits on the throne.

It is more beautiful to be kind than right.

And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as “penilosophy.

On Easter day let us promise to resurrect, transcend, and transform our conscience for the happiness of mankind.

Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult its just that you dont understand it and dont know how it works. Understanding something it means taking time to learn it and practising it.

As I think therefore I amAm I more if I think more?

Life loses its meaning when we are not living in peace.

A true friend fills our lives with the aroma of love.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.

A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness.

[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.' In it, Rorty describes how as a youth he ambled around the blooming hillside in north-west New Jersey, and breathed in the stunning odour of the orchids. Around the same time he discovered a fascinating book at the home of his leftist parents, defending Leon Trotsky against Stalin. This was the origin of the vision that the young Rorty took with him to college: philosophy is there to reconcile the celestial beauty of orchids with Trotsky's dream of justice on earth. Nothing is sacred to Rorty the ironist. Asked at the end of his life about the 'holy', the strict atheist answered with words reminiscent of the young Hegel: 'My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

Things are wonderful when we look at them with magic in our hearts.

Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life

Wherever you are, be there with love.

Either let me love more or let me go.

And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.

Go away from your comfort zone to feel the beauty of life.

Genius is measured not by static volume but by kinetic vision.

I might, indeed, read history; but whenever I attempt to do so, I am to tell you the truth, driven from it by disgust—What is it, but a miserably mortifying detail of crimes and follies?—of the guilt of a few, and the sufferings of many, while almost every page offers an argument in favor of what I never will believe—that heaven created the human race only to destroy itself.

Sharing is an inherent sign of growth.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

The thing I regret the most is that I cannot help everyone who really needs it.

Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Life is magic. Life is a miracle. Life is an awful beautiful ride.

Do according to your capability.

Every woman is distinctly beautiful because every woman has a motherly instinct.

If you want to be wise, learn wisdom from nature.

Everyone has a purpose of life. My purpose of life is to serve humanity.

Let us be kind and compassionate to all beings. Everyone wants to enjoy their lives, everyone has sufferings, and everyone wants peace and happiness.

The moment you begin your journey, the whole universe begins to enjoy your song.

Is it difficult to recognize spring when the air is dancing with joy and the flowers are blooming bright colorful smiles?

Leadership is a process where a leader has a purpose oriented destination and lets the followers find the best way to get there with a common vision and goal.

Be an example, be kind and be simple.

You cannot go back and start a brand new beginning, but today is a new day and you can start a brand new thing.

The biggest adventure in life is life itself.

Most people miss an opportunity because they fear to knock on the door.

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.

Time is a strange phenomenon that understands the physics of our world, but never the chemistry of it

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

For deep adherents, the Koran would seem to echo great truths given directly to a vaunted and hallowed prophet by a deity of overwhelming power and grandeur. If you don’t hold any such archaic notions, however, the words attributed to Allah come across as harshly self-defensive, crude in reemphasizing old cultural standards, shaky in trying to establish new standards, brutal in places, mostly repetitious and monotonous – and thoroughly unbelievable. When you have outgrown all such unfounded religious notions, the Koran doesn’t offer much by way of piercing perspective.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

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Education has enhanced my wisdom. Simplicity and humility will not allow me to call myself wise.

When I hang upside down and write the wrong way up, will my letters be upside down or the right way up?

You lose your power not by giving it away, but by not giving it away.

Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative. Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

You are who you think you are.

Morning sunrise wakes me upwith rays of hope.Clouds of fear can hide the sunbut not for long.If rays of hope are strongand patience is a song,then hope will bloom andrain will bring a rainbow.

S.M."Social Media or Social Menace?I'll leave it to you to work out.

Censorship may promote the lies, but it does not alter the truth.

The thing that attracted me about philosophy was that it went straight to essentials. I had never liked fiddling detail; I perceived the general significance of things rather than their singularities, and I preferred understanding to seeing; I had always wanted to know everything; philosophy would allow me to appease this desire, for it aimed at total reality;philosophy went right to the heart of truth and revealed to me, instead of an illusory whirlwind of facts or empirical laws, an order, a reason, a necessity in everything.

The best investment for poverty elimination is education.

Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.