Philosophy Quotes - Page 48

Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness.

Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance.

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

God will create the best opportunity for you. To find those opportunities is your responsibility.

Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?

To avoid the pain of loss, give up attachment.

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

Be courageous. Always be a voice for those who are oppressed.

When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.

The moon is a poem in a starry night.

You are a prisoner of conformity when you care about what other people think.

Beauty is not in a woman’s face but in her soul.

He was looking for immensity. His life was hopelessly small, everything surrounding him was nondescript and gray. And death is absolute; it is indivisible and indissoluble. The presence of the girl was pathetic (a few caresses and a lot of meaningless words), but her absolute absence was infinitely grand; when he imagined a girl buried in a field, he suddenly discovered the nobility of pain and the grandeur of love. But it was not only the absolute but also bliss he was looking for in his dreams of death.

After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.

Curiosity is the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom.

Your brain is an accelerating gravity free zone. While Intelligence leverages it, Intellectuality erodes it!

As you think, so you are.

To grow unique beauty, be wild and live in the wilderness of your mind.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days.

The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is…emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Most beautiful things comes to us free of charge.

Your Maker has rescued you from the darkest corner of your own heart... What he asks in return is obedience. And the courage to do what is necessary.

Il est ce qui échappe à l'activité des hommes, à la reconsidération et à la correction de leur œuvre.

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

If you want peace, fill your mind with peaceful thoughts.

Sooner or later everyone behaves badly. Some of us are just better at it than others.

It is hard to think differently. To change your world, change your thoughts.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

Knowledge is the ultimate secret of courage.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one

Plant the trees just for beauty,If flowers bloom or fruits ripen, Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver.

My favorite passage from the book: "Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don't ever want to be again. Everything we do is part of who we are. How we choose to use those memories, to motivate or to submit is entirely up to us.

Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.

Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.

Colors don't come in shapes.They come in depth.

I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking—that the mind is one’s only judge of values and one’s only guide of action—that reason is an absolute that permits no compromise—that a concession to the irrational invalidates one’s consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality—that the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind—that the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence and, properly, annihilates one’s consciousness.

A good relationship with our children is the ultimate comfort we have while dying.

Life becomes perfect if I look at it through my imperfect perceptions.

Life without love, is the soul without the spirit.

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

If you want to conform, then how can you change?

If you have a great vision and are ready for a passionate mission, they you are a leader.

Forgiveness reveals the ultimate beauty of life.

You are the God. You are the embodiment of God. The moment you start to love everyone and everything, you are doing your divine duty.

A heart filled with love is the source of power and strength.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Seek knowledge to amaze yourself endlessly.

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes.

No one can steal your love, joy, and happiness without your permission.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

My life's message is my kindness and love.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

Suffering often comes from the choices you make. Choose carefully.