Philosophy Quotes - Page 52

The tallest and oldest trees that seemed to have just have casually always been there, hold the greatest love: as it nurtures love for others: providing shade for two lovers, becoming home for birds to build a nest, and giving food to the squirrels whom scurry upon it.

To love is as natural as the blue sky.

May the light of your love have enough power to extinguish all the darkness from the world.

Knowledge gives shows us a direction education gives us power to walk.

Anyone who symbolizes himself a hater in anythingdeserves no love at all

The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless—one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoyan’s will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite’s will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special. They stand at the crossroads, and one hates all the roads and the other likes all the roads. The result is—well, some things are not hard to calculate. They stand at the cross-roads.

It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.

I have never known anyone to win a battle waged against his emotions. When a sentiment hoists his glimmering blade into the air, the battle is lost before it has begun.

In this view, man is an energy-converting organism who must exert his manipulative powers, who must damage his world in some ways, who must make it uncomfortable for others, etc., by his own nature as an active being. He seeks self-expansion from a very uncertain power base. Even if man hurts others, it is because he is weak and afraid, not because he is confident and cruel. Rousseau summed up this point of view with the idea that only the strong person can be ethical, not the weak one.

If God created everything, and if man is created in God's image, and if man can dream a fate greater than the one set out for him by God, could God dream a fate greater than his own?

A good writer is one that can see the goodness in others and helps them to be better.

I participate in BDSM, but I wasn't abused as a child. I don't hate women, or particularly enjoy hurting women. Sometimes I make them feel pain, but it's consensual, it serves a purpose—to get them off—and they can indicate that they wish me to stop at any time. I do like the power I get from total submission, and the trust that my partner puts in me to give me everything, from her mind to her body, while expecting nothing in return—except the understanding that I won't violate that trust.

Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough.

Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.

They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.

I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together.

We live in this universe not with the power of our body, but with the power of our will and spirit.

Listen in silence to the whisper of the winds so that you may understand the song of your heart.

A mind is not a barren field, but it is an ever-growing and ever blooming garden of love.

A smart person speaks out the truth. A wise person doesn't care about speaking it out, as much as he or she cares about utilizing that truth in the society, in a way that brings most progress, in a way that brings most human development. And that's the purpose atheism should have.

Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die.

If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.

The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.

Everyone in this world is your kin, so be kind to everyone and rude to no one.

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.

Love for the humanity is the basis for morality.

There is now a distance,pressing quite persistent,May be only inches apart,but as if an artery is blocked.There now seem some secrets,a word which was earlier so needless.May be they now laugh so less,and even in summers,the air between them feels dense.Who connects? Who neglects?Barely matters when you are no more friends.

If you have to criticize, do it with deep understanding and love.

Love yourself to love others.

Creative people neither like to be possessive nor like to be possessed.

Justice is about harmony... revenge is about you making yourself feel better.

When our beliefs are false we can justify anything to prove our beliefs.

The best way to love someone is to let them reveal their inner beauty that will enlighten your soul and the heart of the universe.

A little dust does not make an ocean dirty. By blaming you change the society by making a lot of dust. By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty- for sure we can change our society and clean up the dust.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

A true lover can never hate or hurt another.

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves

To make it a perfect season, love everyone without reason.

Education is the key to the door of opportunity.

Hope is a conscious mission. Dream is an unconscious vision.

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.

Kiss me with love like a butterfly kisses flowers to find and taste the nectar of life.

Silence is the music of the heart.

The true essence of vedanta focuses upon subject rather than object.

If you find that you “disagree” with something I’ve written, then you missed the point!!

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being—not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement—not survival at any price, since there’s only one price that pays for man’s survival: reason.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

Windows open out onto the universe around you, but doors will take you to where your imagination lies.

I may be deaf to the sounds of the world, but you have shown me how I can hear by seeing the color in your smile and feeling the touch of your hand in mine.

Be the fountain of love and let everyone wade in it.

YOU have to design your own Price tag for the world.

A smile is infectious and contagious. Pass it on!

Life is like a flowing river. Just like the speed of time, it will never come back.

Be courageous. Get out of your comfort zone to live fully and abundantly.

With hopes we can fly with the stars in the mind's sky.

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

Before Marriage opposite attracts, after marriage opposite attacks☺. Just telling you the truth.

The term 'Being' does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulated conceptually according to genus and species: the 'universality' of Being 'transcends' any universality of genus.