Philosophy Quotes - Page 4

You are judged more by what you do passively than by what you do actively.

What we are doing in this moment is what matters the most. Be mindful.

Sticking a straw up your butt won't get rid of the constipation.

As a human being, our abilities are unlimited. The only limitation is the mindset.

Let us not dwell into past thoughts, worn out ideas, false beliefs. Let them go so that you can create a new self by emptying your mind and filling it with new thoughts, ideas, and visions.

Miseries are often an option and it depends on perception.

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

Gratitude is the key for the door of abundance.

In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

I am not an atheist. But the religion that I do advocate is not of the Bible, Vedas, Quran or any other scripture. The religion I speak of, is what Christ talked about, it is what Buddha talked about, it is the religion of plain everyday kindness.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Without any reason or expectation, love someone today and feel the joy of life.

Love delayed is lust augmented.

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think…

If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.

For we conceive it as the aim of a philosopher, as such, to do somewhat more than define and formulate the common normal opinions of mankind. His function is to tell men what they ought to think, rather than what they do think: he is expected to transcend Common Sense in his premises, and is allowed a certain divergence from Common Sense in his conclusions. It is true that the limits of this deviation are firmly, though indefinitely, fixed: the truth of a philosopher's premises will always be tested by the acceptability of his conclusions: if in any important point he be found in flagrant conflict with common opinion, his method is likely to be declared invalid. Still, though he is expected to establish and concatenate at least the main part of the commonly accepted moral rules, he is not necessarily bound to take them as the basis on which his own system is constructed. Rather, we should expect that the history of Moral Philosophy--so far at least as those whom we may call orthodox thinkers are concerned--would be a history of attempts to enunciate, in full breadth and clearness, those primary intuitions of Reason, by the scientific application of which the common moral thought of mankind may be at once systematized and corrected.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

You will succeed in everything you want to do, so start today with your heart and with your love.

I love you as the moon loves the night.

Sit on a cliff and look at the ocean. In the ocean of life, you are a bubble, but you have the power to appreciate the greatness, vastness, and beauty of her. Because you came, sit next to the ocean and enjoy the beauty and appreciate the vast, great, and creative power. She is dancing with joy. You may not know that she is watching you, but she knows you are watching her.

This is the vital difference between Conscious Beings, which we are morphing into organically, and those who are asleep or unconscious.

Art is an expression of inner perception as an outer reality.

To have abundance, appreciate what you have with great love and share your possessions with joy.

Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace.

Sometimes it’s typical to think you found what you desire, but then the opposition can happen, causing reevaluation on your options. Conversely, when you find beauty in something that holds treasures, you may have found beauty to your heart’s desire that harvest love or pain through it. The harvest is inevitable, but your senses redirect for proper discernment and perception.

Evil exemplifies the contemptuous transgression and annihilation of virtue.

As an individual I stand out.As a member of society, you don't.

She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.

Poetry is the flower of life. It blooms to fill life with her fragrance of inner beauty.

Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without itself being changed. Secondly, things with dimensions are potential of division. But the starting-point for all existence must be wholly real and not potential in any way: though things that get realized begin as potential, preceding them is the source of their realization which must already be real. Thirdly, living bodies are superior to other bodies; and what makes a body living is not the dimensions which make it a body (for then everything with dimensions would be living), but something more excellent like a soul. The most excellent existent of all then cannot be a body. So when the scriptures ascribe dimensions to God they are using spatial extension to symbolize the extent of God's power; just as they ascribe bodily organs to God as metaphors for their functions, and postures like sitting or standing to symbolize authority or strength.

Be bold. Be not fearful. Take actions. Action is real. Results requires interpretation and depends on perception.

Patience! It is not how quickly you run, but how slowly.

True Relations never break and relation which breaks were never true

What you see is not real. It is a misinterpretation of our false perceptions.

A courageous and determined person finds opportunity in every adversity.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name.

To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.

In the Christian religion, though perhaps not in any other, we frequently find a conception of god that is selfcontradictory and therefore corresponds to nothing. That is the conception formed by the following three propositions taken together:1. God is all-powerful.2. God is all-benevolent.3. There is much misery in the world.A god who was all-powerful but left much misery in the world would not be all-benevolent. An all-benevolent god in a world containing much misery would not be an all-powerful god. A world containing a god who was both all-powerful and all-benevolent would contain no misery.Here, then, we have a mathematical proof bearing on a common religious doctrine. Anyone who is confident that he frequently comes across misery in the world may conclude with equal confidence that there is no such thing as an all-powerful and all-benevolent god. And this mathematically disposes of official Christianity, as has long been known.

If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.

Don’t use your words to criticize, condemn, or complain; us your words to appreciate, inspire, and empower.

The purpose of each incarnation is the transformation \ spiritual development of the individual. To the extent our day-to-day activities become harmonious with this purpose, that much peace and happiness we can experience

If the purpose of your life is to seek happiness, you will be happy even if you are not a success.

A belief does not become a truth just because the whole world believes it.

Every difficult problem is easy if you know how to.

Always keep open the window of your mind to let in love.

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.

Fear success but not the mistakes.

To find the deep meaning of life, you must get lost in the blue sky and go beyond your comfort zone.

Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return.

Open the beauty of your heart and smile like a flower.

Life is a dancing dream.

Today’s struggle will be tomorrow’s strength so welcome it with love and courage.

Kindness is the best philosophy.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Love is the bridge that crosses over the river of hate.

As we transcended and transformed from Neanderthal so will future humans transcend to a new level of consciousness and transform into a super human or homo-cosmicus.

Be happy for what you have not for what you should have.

The machine itself receives some of the same feelings. With over 27,000 on it it's getting to be something of a high-miler, and old-timer, although there are plenty of older ones running. But over the miles, and I think most cyclists will agree with this, you pick up certain feelings about an individual machine that are unique for that one individual machine and no other. A friend who owns a cycle of the same make, model and even same year brought it over for a repair, and when I test rode it afterward it was hard to believe it had come from the same factory years ago. You could see that long ago it had settled into its own kind of feel and ride and sound, completely different from mine. No worse, but different.I suppose you could call that a personality. Each machine has its own, unique personality which probably could be defined as the intuitive sum total of everything you know and feel about it. This personality constantly changes, usually for the worse, but sometimes surprisingly for the better, and it is the personality that is the real object of motorcycle maintenance. The new ones start out as good-looking strangers, and depending on how they are treated, degenerate rapidly into bad-acting grouches or even cripples, or else turn into healthy, good-natured, long-lasting friends.