Philosophy Quotes - Page 86

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

When you take an action with love, there is always happiness.

No, little one, George's ghost won't come back. Human beings don't have souls. No soul, no ghost. Simple.""How can you say that?" protested Mopple. "We don't know whether humans have souls or not.""Every lamb knows that your soul is in your sense of smell. And human beings don't have very good noses." Maude herself had an excellent sense of smell, and often thought about the problem of souls and noses."So you'd only see a very small ghost. Nothing to be afraid of.

Have you become a song in someone's heart?

I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.

Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover.

It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.

So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, which will be better polished than earlier ones, but, peremptorily and seizing it by the lapels, "what is truth as such," and with regard to reality, not what things are or what and how is that which is, but for what reason that X which we call Being is in the Universe, and with regard to knowledge we must not ask for its bases and limits—as Plato, Aristotle Descartes, Kant did—but for something which comes before all this: for what reason we concern ourselves with trying to know.

The world will go on with or without humanity.

Kindness is the fragrance of pure love.

Love is my way and treasure, love is my strength and power.

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It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.

Cognition begins with sensation.

God does not showers blessings, he showers opportunities.

So forgive and forget the past baggage of life to refresh your life.

He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. Why might this be interesting, or even inspiring? Perhaps because unhappiness can stem from only having one perspective to play with.

I am happy because my mind is always filled with happy thoughts.

By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void.

Never try to be happy but always try to make someone happy. All the happiness in the world will be yours.

Be kind to be awesome.

Don’t worry. All of your problems will be solved in the end.

Success leads to greater success.

Peace is in selfless caringPeace is in true understanding Peace is in undeserved kindnessPeace is in joyful forgiveness Peace is in innocent trustPeace is in becoming justPeace is in a dancing butterfly Peace is in a clear starry skyPeace is a child's loving kissPeace is a life's pure bliss

Every moment is a moment of hope, moment of beauty, a moment of joy and it is our life.

Keep the window of the mind open to let the fresh thoughts come in like fresh air.

Then he realized: 'I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.' In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.

Breathtaking beauty is just over the barrier that you always fear.

Optimistic curiosity and persistent goal oriented action bring more success than anything else.

To find happiness, love is the only way.

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

The ultimate way to reduce stress is find the cause and melt it away with love.

If you don't believe in yourself,How can you ever believe in another?

I don't want to settle down because God has satisfied me and heard my prayers. I want to stay hungry and thirsty for the things of God.

To be a success, let go of the past and accept the beauty of change.

Do not desire to be recognized, but always desire to do your best to help humanity.

If you want to be happy or if you want to be miserable—either way is your choice. So choose to be happy.

Robbers*sometimes your words rob you of your thoughtsand leave you destituteand sadwill they weep for you i wonder_____________________________rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015"The Poetic Assassin

If I love a dose of (good) theology or philosophy, I probably also love discipline, improvement, wisdom, and challenges. If I hate it, I am probably too comfortable and proud to try to question myself.

​Who gets to Live? You or Your Rules?

I am very simple and kind of a man to be a politician.

Love is such a nice way to express your thoughts.

This moment will never ever come back, so create a memory and hold it tight.

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

Wisdom defines your value—not your wealth.

To feel the joy too much:let us trust too much,let us love too much, let us hope too muchand let us belong too much.

I wish you a very merry Christmas filled with abundance and a magnificent magical New Year.

Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order tolive at all.

The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.

Our dreams become our home where we dwell.

What are the four 'D' steps that ensure success?1) DREAM2) DESIRE3) DETERMINATION4) DESTINATIONFollow these four 'D' steps, never giving up or doubting yourself along the way, and you will become the person you were meant to be. And that's YOU!

In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.

Imagination is a place where a rational mind travels in time to meet it's god, "The Infinite Mind"!

Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult as trying to belive that there is enough love & compassion in the world so every human can feel happiness.

Wherever you go, warm that place and people with love and kindness.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.