Philosophy Quotes - Page 47

With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination.

Like a flower, be soft, loving, kind, and beautiful, but never lose the courage to bloom.

You are the world. Everything that you see around you is a reflection of your soul and mind.

If you don't follow your dreams, someone else, somewhere will follow theirs. Don't get left behind.

But I did feel the vertigo of death’s invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my wavering soul. I came to realize, just in time, that suicide was far too easy – and obscenely cowardly – after someone I knew, not even half my age, had been through so much worse and still marched gloriously on.

Inner peace comes from knowing the ultimate purpose of your life.

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

Thank you for being you, because without whom, I wouldn't be me.

I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.

Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.

Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here.

The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid.

To expand our life, be loving and kind.

Love, caring, and the spirit of kindness always bring happiness. Our greatest happiness depends on what we love, how we care, and how we share.

A great sage is like a tree, he lives just to help others, just to make this world beautiful.

Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society.

No matter where you are spread the fragrance of peace like a flower.

Professional men run the business started by the courageous men.

Let me eat the love and digest it.Let me love the flower and beautify it.

Talking doesn't get your point across but listening does.

Education gives you the power to think rationally, think better, and be productive in every act.

Hope is the flower of the soul. Let it bloom with action and persistence.

Let it be that your life becomes the brightest light that enlightens the whole world.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

Live your life to care and your inner wealth to share.

Let the light of love enlighten the whole world. Let the power of love overpower all the evils.

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Find the joy and peace in and around you. It is a choice not a condition or destination.

Love is divine and peaceful but hate is devilish and dreadful. So love everyone without judging them, you will be in peace always.

Just smile.You'll be glad that you did.

they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From whence then comes error In that while all men wish for a happy life they mistake the means for the thing itself and while they fancy themselves in pursuit of it they are flying from it for when the sum of happiness consists in solid tranquillity and an unembarrassed confidence therein they are ever collecting causes of disquiet and not only carry burthens but drag them painfully along through the rugged and deceitful path of life so that they still withdraw themselves from the good effect proposed the more pains they take the more business they have upon their hands instead of advancing they are retrograde and as it happens in a labyrinth their very speed puzzles and confounds them

Be patient in life, knowing that there is a real possibility that the desired outcome could happen without your direct involvement.

We do not create life, we create death.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs. That of course is only a figure of speech and exaggerated; if all teeth were but ready they would not need even to bite, the bones would crack themselves and the marrow would be freely accessible to the feeblest of dogs. If I remain faithful to this metaphor, then the goal of my aims, my questions, my inquiries, appears monstrous, it is true. For I want to compel all dogs thus to assemble together, I want the bones to crack open under the pressure of their collective preparedness, and then I want to dismiss them to the ordinary life they love, while all by myself, quite alone, I lap up the marrow. That sounds monstrous, almost as if I wanted to feed on the marrow, not merely of bone, but of the whole canine race itself. But it is only a metaphor. The marrow that I am discussing here is no food; on the contrary, it is a poison.

Money is not as good as power, but power is as good as money.

Quality of life depends on quality and quantity of happiness.

Now the common human perception about the purpose of academic institutions, is that, they are meant to put a stamp of approval on the students, so that later on the students can show off their stamp in order to make a living. The parents invest money to get the stamp, and the child uses that stamp to make more money. Where is the element of education in this whole process!

You never know how strong you are until you've been tested. People will try you on every level. They may think because you're not loud or rude like them that you won't put them in their place. But, push the wrong buttons and you'll soon find out.

I will meet you in that gap where consciousness meets unconsciousness.

Be careful the mistake of yesterday always lives with tomorrow.

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge.

It can be accepted that there is a price for man's work, time spent or service done, but never for human dignity.

...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

When the power of love overtakes all other power then we will find the true peace on earth.

The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity.

Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!

Be like a peacock and dance with all of your beauty.

Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, environment, propaganda, conditioning.If people had the sense they pretend to have, they would seek this fundamental distinction perceptible.Hardly anyone makes this effort. This is partly because it is an invisible but powerful part of their culture to teach that conditioned emotionality and ‘causes’ whose necessity, urgency or rightness is only conditioned into them, are necessarily, right.

I’d like to be the moon in your sky.

True nakedness belongs to the inner soul not the outer skin !

FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.

Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na RahiFalsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na RahiAzan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal’s, soulfully;Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali

All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.

I want to be a ripple in the infinite ocean of love.

How could we have developed our intellectual skills without education?