Philosophy Quotes - Page 88

If a supernatural being is to be exempt from natural law, it cannot possess specific, determinatecharacteristics. These attributes would impose limits and these limits would restrict the capacitiesof this supernatural being. In this case, a supernatural being would be subject to the causalrelationships that mark natural existence, which would disqualify it as a god. Therefore, we mustsomehow conceive of a being without a specific nature, a being that is indeterminate—a being, inother words, that is nothing in particular. But these characteristics (or, more precisely, lack ofcharacteristics) are incompatible with the notion of existence itself.

God is not interested in helping you finding out why you are in a mess, He is interested in fixing it.

Anyone who utters “salvation only through Christ” inadvertently commits to the greatest blasphemy of all, which is differentiation, and this in turn diminishes the very essence of the title Christian.

The power of Manifestation is the ability to make seen the unseen, to real~ise the unreal

Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven'tremained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.

Once I had a love affair with myself.I was left heart broken.

Always do what is right not what is convenient. This will reflect your love and kindness for humanity.

Education helps you to be what you really want to be.

Life continues even if no one has proven to us the shape and size of the Earth, even if no one has informed us about the composition of air and the depth of sky.We will not float in weightlessness simply because we have not read the lesson on gravity.

A good book is a true friend who never betrays.

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.

The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.

You are most happy when you can give yourself away to others.

On October 14th, the sweetest thing happened to me. On that day at sunset, I met you by the sea. It was that day I found a great purpose and a wonderful reason to be.

Souls aren’t discrete units — or even units at all. They’re more like reflections of consciousness in a fractured mirror.

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind.

You are here to feel the joy of life by empowering, enabling, enlightening humanity so that humanity may find its own joy.

There are many hidden truths behind a lie

And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

The most important subject in the curriculum in the future years will be how to love ourselves and be content.

Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever.

Every day of life is an adventure. Don’t fear to dare and never forget to enjoy it.

A leader is a lamp not just a sign board.

The ultimate goal of education is to gain wisdom from experiences.

Human beings are born for peace; they like to grow up in peace. They like to raise their children in peace, and they like to say goodbye to this beautiful life in peace. Then why are we always preparing for war?

Yoga not only allows you to learn to control your breathing, but it ultimately enhances your abilities to harmonize your thoughts and enhances your inner beauty.

In order to recognize the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the Truth; and to explain the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the recognition. This is why a wordsmithed Truth is nothing but a shadow of the shadow of the Truth. If Buddha had yawned instead of holding up a fower, would that gesture have been any less representative of the Truth?

Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is unable to act for himself as an independent intelligence she acts for him. But the very fact that constitutes him a man is that he does not remain stationary, where nature has placed him, that he can pass with his reason, retracing the steps nature had made him anticipate, that he can convert the work of necessity into one of free solution, and elevate physical necessity into a moral law.

Fill life with emptiness to enjoy the abundance.

We always think that God's presence is always provided to fix our problems but what if God's presence is more about fixing your perspectives? So that you will have a new way to see your problems. If you didn't make your bed before leaving home this morning, no angel is going to make your bed for you, it is still going to be as you left it till you come back.

Endure the storm, but don't forget to enjoy the rainbow and the thunder.

Everyone is trying to impress everyone else. to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.

Philosophy is the art of conscience.

Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.

The best of a human being is still a human being.

A baby is a dancing joy of life.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

A photograph captures a magical moment for the future to ponder.

Get addicted to peace, talk about it all day and may be all night. Drink it, live it and love it. It will change the world.

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

If life gets you down.Just try digging a deeper hole.

The best wisdom is knowing not to judge anyone and to be kind to everyone.

I didn't get to God by effort or title, I got there by invitation. God can lift you quickly if you let Him. He really cares.

No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some people will inherit wealth they did not earn.

Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil.

Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.

The heretic is the one who speaks against the community from a place within its territory. He is the enemy within. The heathen, by contrast, is safely behind the walls, excluded by his own invincible arrogance.

Be happy with yourself to encourage others.

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.

Peace is not the absence of poverty But the presence of love for beauty

To each his own reality.

Nothing is more on the nose,than sun cream.

Knowing why you are is your purpose.Knowing who you are is your style.Knowing what you are is your character

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being- it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. I human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

What if, tomorrow is your last day on earth? Think!

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

I revered our theology, and aspired as much as any one to reach heaven: but being given assuredly to understand that the way is not less open to the most ignorant than to the most learned, and that the revealed truths which lead to heaven are above our comprehension, I did not presume to subject them to the impotency of my reason; and I thought that in order competently to undertake their examination, there was need of some special help from heaven, and of being more than man.

Music begins where the possibilities of language end

Focus your mind on love, peace and harmony.It will vanish fear, doubt and disharmony.