Philosophy Quotes - Page 80

There is no fact or fiction, reality or illusion, there is only the trick of perception.

Love everything around you as if everything is yours.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Consciousness resides in the gap between electrons, protons, and neutrons.

Ostracism is just another form of racism!

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view.

The truth is that everyday and everyone is different. We just like to think that they aren't.

Never pray for life to be easier, but pray for courage to go on and still enjoy every moment of beauty.

Even our behavior and emotions seem to have been shaped by a prankster. Why do we crave the very foods that are bad for us but have less desire for pure grains and vegetables? Why do we keep eating when we know we are too fat? And why is our willpower so weak in its attempts to restrain our desires? Why are male and female sexual responses so uncoordinated, instead of being shaped for maximum mutual satisfaction? Why are so many of us constantly anxious, spending our lives, as Mark Twain said, "suffering from tragedies that never occur"? Finally, why do we find happiness so elusive, with the achievement of each long-pursued goal yielding not contentment, but only a new desire for something still less attainable? The design of our bodies is simultaneously extraordinarily precise and unbelievably slipshod. It is as if the best engineers in the universe took every seventh day off and turned the work over to bumbling amateurs.

Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?

Beauty is the expression of the hearts truth.

Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?

Science was born, when religion failed to find the God!

I find that...The bigger the ego.The bigger the mouth.The deeper the shallowness of a person.

There is hope for every soul to know the spirit.

Fear is natural, but love is eternal. Never be fearful of love.

Be courageous! Never fear to take a chance.

Love is the creative force of this universe.

They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat.

A person may learn things all their life, but never gain knowledge of truth.

You cannot live with inner tranquility and peace when you hate others.

I grew up once, I decided never to do it again

The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a loving heart is everlasting.

Love shouldn't have a reason but love is the reason.

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

By giving away with kindness, you get it back with greatness.

My thoughts are the dance of my consciousness on the stage of my mind.

One thing, Ms. Gray, is forgotten by this tragedy: the embryo is human, not a nonhuman as the Supreme Court declared. Abortion never was about the poor or about women’s rights. It’s an ideology with an agenda—and it’s a profitable business. So, Ms. Gray, I dare say few politicians will speak that truth for fear of political reprisals. I’m not afraid. Politicians and courts made legal what is a morally reprehensible act of brutality. I call it what it is: judicial tyranny.

Today, take a dive in a beautiful, calm, tranquil lake of peace.

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that’s through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality—you who have never known any—but to discover it.

I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.

Rx for life: see through the heart and live with kindness.

I set free the phantoms of my imagination.

When the heart hurts, tears find their way.

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.

Even if I told you what scares me, you wouldn't understand how it feels.So just so you know, I've travelled roads I had no idea where they'd take me to.And maybe I don't know much about life and its horrors but trust me, I know enough.And I can fix everything, like I always have.

You truly live when you have an abundant mindset and help others to create abundance.

The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.

Education enlightens you to see the beauty of life.

Observing is the basis of wisdom.

...faith must recognize the autonomy of reason and its ability to produce a rational, secular ethics. By the same criterion, reason must accept that it is legitimate for the heart, consciousness and faith to believe in an order and ends thar exist prior to its observation, discoveries and hypotheses. Once the distinction between the realms of faith and reason, and religion and science, has been accepted, it is therefore futile to debate, and still less to dispute, the hierarchy of first truths or the nature of the authority granted to their methods and their references.

A moment of kindness can fill your heart with infinite joy.

In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

Most of Jesus’ life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus’s life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus.

Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time

I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merging traditional methods with artificial means.Words carved in ink and electricity to facilitate simplicity and eradicate toxicity. No matter what fashion, form, font, method or avenue, the simplest and most meaningful words remain ever so true; I choose and love, only forever you.

How does one say something new and not retell?

How much you love yourself will define how much you can love others.

The currency of a happy life is not money, but it is pure love.

Focus on beauty, not on feardance with stress to let it clear

Be persistent. Success is not far away.

No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What’s more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools.Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only “tools” we truly possess in life.

Life doesn't offers charity, it offers chance.

That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.

When I read books, it is like I have met the sacred souls.

You cannot know how many other miracles one sole miracle begets. She was not a savior. She did not confer salvation. She said we were to be the saviors. She said we know God only through each other. That God is not in us, but between us. That we deliver God to each other, like a flame passed from cupped hand to cupped hand. We bring God to life in each other.

If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not in condonation of it. There are too many expert witnesses on the other side.