Philosophy Quotes - Page 9

The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but is oblivious of the necessity of providing food for the mind.

Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye

We create our life moment by moment. Only those things that can match our inner vibrational frequency can come into our life.

Focus on greatness to be great.

The best way to achieve great success is to learn from wise people. Use them extensively with love, gratitude, and humility.

A dove carries peace on its wings.

Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.

Hope is a bird that sings the songs of possibilities from the deepness of the heart.

Like a caterpillar, when you feel that your time is over, you may reach infinite light with infinite joy.

Let people stick to their philosophy, you stick to your passion.

Hope is a garden where dreams grow like flowers.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Only by changing the state of consciousness can we change mankind.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Purpose driven attitude of service is the driving force for daring success.

If there are no great teachers, how can we expect a great future?

The language of the universe comes not from the voice but from the primordial silence. You can understand it by enhancing your feelings.

To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.

Preparation doesn't assures victory, it assures confidence.

Be fearless like a newborn that is born with love and hope.

The very essence of love is love itself without any other expectation.

Water is soft and humble, but it is the most powerful and is the most endurable.

Life has ceased to be lived in a closed world the center of which was man; the world has become limitless and at the same time threatening. By losing his fixed place in a closed world man loses the answer to the meaning of his life; the result is that doubt has befallen him concerning himself and the aim of life. He is threatened by powerful superpersonal forces, capital and the market. His relationship to his fellow men, with everyone a potential competitor, has become hostile and estranged; he is free - that is, he is alone, isolated, threatened from all sides. [H]e is overwhelmed with a sense of his individual nothingness and helplessness. Paradise is lost for good, the individual stands alone and faces the world - a stranger thrown into a limitless and threatening world. The new freedom is bound to create a deep feeling of insecurity, powerlessness, doubt, aloneness, and anxiety.

The more you know, the more you will be able to appreciate the beauty of life and your heart will desire to learn.

You are a sweet ocean of love. Invite everyone to come to your shore to feel the joy of life.

He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.

By that which you kill are you bound.

Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence. The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness

The future success of a nation depends on how diligently and purposefully they educate their children.

You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.

A thirst for water may be an oasis in your day.

All is flux

To attract pure love, love yourself passionately.

Every sunrise gives you reason to hope. Every darkness of night teaches you patience.

Just like you can’t reap a harvest without planting seeds, so you can’t get without giving.

We are each given a life to show what we can achieve during our time here on Earth.And we are each given a heart to show how we can be compassionate and kind during our time here on Earth.We shouldn't waste either.

A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.

You may silence the critics, but you don't silence the pain.

Ignite the light within you, it will make your world brighter.

When you are having a difficult time, don’t lose your cool. Don’t hurry--be silent, listen, and think to find the way.

There is no hell; there is no heaven. In your mind, they are your own creation.

There are situations in life which are beyond one. The sensible man realizes this, and slides out of such situations, admitting himself beaten. Others try to grapple with them, but it never does any good. When affairs get in a real tangle, it is best to sit still and let them straighten themselves out. Or, if one does not do that, simply to think no more about them. This is Philosophy. The true philosopher is the man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his arm-chair. One's attitude towards Life's Little Difficulties should be that of the gentleman in the fable, who sat down on an acorn one day and happened to doze. The warmth of his body caused the acorn to germinate, and it grew so rapidly that, when he awoke, he found himself sitting in the fork of an oak sixty feet from the ground. He thought he would go home, but, finding this impossible, he altered his plans. "Well, well," he said, "if I cannot compel circumstances to my will, I can at least adapt my will to circumstances. I decide to remain here." Which he did, and had a not unpleasant time. The oak lacked some of the comforts of home, but the air was splendid and the view excellent.Today's Great Thought for Young Readers. Imitate this man.

You can be drunk on wine.You can be drunk on success.I'm just drunk on the success of my wine.

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

A dwarf will always tell tall stories.

It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

Make peace with your past and make room to welcome your future.

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.

Fear not failure but success.

I have learned to thank God for what I cannot see, I have learned to trust God with what I cannot.

We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet—that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life. We speculate, dream, strategize, and plan for these "conditions of happiness" we want to have in the future; and we continually chase after that future, even while we sleep. We may have fears about the future because we don't know how it's going to turn out, and these worries and anxieties keep us from enjoying being here now.

A conscientious man, Muslim or otherwise, would never abuse his wife and then resort to the scripture to justify his actions. But a fundamentalist caveman would gloriously beat his wife whenever he likes and shamelessly quote from Quran to rationalize his monstrosity.

When you give without expectations, your soul dances and sparkles with deep inner joy.

Be bold and fly toward the unknown. Discover a road that was never known.

To overcome the fear of failure, do what makes you fearful.

for that men have been good does not suffice for them to continue being good, unless one cares about it to the end.

Reality, in its essence, consists not of particles interacting pointlessly in anindependent physical plane, but rather of values, psychological elements ofmind, made real.

Art is an expression of love, which you can see on the canvas.

I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in men’s minds, perhaps from a lack of a willingness to feel themselves utterly alone. But now and then I feel that there is something beyond the material world, somethings we all feel intimations of but cannot explain. Underneath the religious vision there is the harsh fundamental reality of all our lives, because we know we must live and die as the animals we are. But sometimes I suspect that under that harsh reality there is a further vision, still deeper based, that comes nearer to true reality than the reality we know.