Philosophy Quotes

Be wise like water and adapt, adjust, and appreciate whomever you are with and wherever you are.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Our love is like a flower.First you need to plant the seeds.Then you give it love, water and nutrients.The you watch it grow and grow.And finally it blossoms to become you.

Friendship is a poetry of life that is written in two hearts.

Dare to dream big. Never fear to fail. Take actions with love.

To improve a country, educate the citizens.

Look for the opportunity, not for the consistency.

America is the most fertile ground of opportunity.

The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, color each other.

For until this morning I had known contemplation only in its humbler, its more ordinary forms - as discursive thinking; as a rapt absorption in poetry or painting or music, as a patient waiting upon those inspirations, without which even the prosiest writer cannot hope to accomplish anything; as occasional glimpses, in nature, of Wordsworth's 'something far more deeply interfused'; as systematic silence leading, sometimes, to hints of an 'obscure knowledge'. But now I knew contemplation at its height.

Live every day,not by spending time,but by investing all the way.

Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

The more you smile, the more reasons you will find to smile.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Most powerful is he who never cared for power.

A great teacher not only teaches, they cultivate green fields to grow beautiful flowers to spread the fragrance of peace, happiness, and prosperity.

This is a beautiful morning; the sun is rising with a smiling face. Everything around me is alive and smiling. Everything is whispering in my ear to enjoy every moment and enjoy the morning. My heart is dancing with you, with morning light.

One thing that unites us all, one thing is universal among the human species; the anatomy. Big, small, fat, thin, colour or creed are irrelevant. Under the skin, under the flesh, we are one and the same. We desire the same things; love, money, power. All the things we can not have, not without cost.

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

To enjoy the greatness and magnificence of life, lose yourself in the ocean of love.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.

I have argued that when we encounter other humans we experience them first as persons, and cannot help but do so. This means that in order to see a human person as an animal or organism we must abstract from the totality of our experience. My suggestion is that we take this fact seriously in understanding the ontology of everyday objects. According to this proposal a “human animal” or “human organism” is not a thing in its own right, but rather a particular perspective we take on ourselves and our lives, one that attends only to our purely biological functions.

You are a prisoner of your thoughts. Expand your thoughts and get out of the prison.

Happiness is not in wealth or splendor, but in passion, perception, and pursuit.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness

Love all, trust all, and help all. Know that no one can hurt you without your permission.

You are modern humans of the civilized world. And modern humans rise beyond all laws and superstitions of the society. They help their fellow beings to rise from the ashes of ignorance, illusion and fear.

My touchstone for following a line of wisdom is; ‘living the philosophy should bring freedom to the individual, and love, wisdom and compassion to society, to our relationships’.

What you are looking for is not out there. It is inside of you. You just have to reveal it.

Human life is a great story written by the mysterious, mystical and magical human mind.

You're here to love and appreciate.

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as Life which you should never forget to live and enjoy

Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.

The philosophy of the rain is very simple: No obstacle is obstacle when you are strongly determined!

True friendship doesn't include jealousy.

It’s all about “Priorities” There's No Such Thing as "Busy

Share your love, share you happiness, care for others; your wealth will be endless.

Philosophy is the song of love with the music of morals.

When you will use the power of love to win the hearts and mind, you will be happy.

If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.

I am not me, I am not a human being.I am empty. Infinite emptiness dwells in me.I am the spirit.Emptiness is me.

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

A man has a hard time feeling fulfilled when he lives a life that does not serve a purpose that is more than himself.

There is something I just realizedThat I never knew before.I can't explain the reasons,But I know that I want more.

To find the joy of life, let us love our life unconditionally.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Begin with a new goal and with a new enthusiasm to create abundance in your life.

Your smile is a flower of your joyful soul.

To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.

Openness to change is key to implementing new knowledge. That is why one who is indifferent to change is not a friend of knowledge.

Either enjoy happiness or enjoy misery. The choice is yours.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death.- Macbeth Act V, Scene V

We must not learn to try harder. The key is to learn how not to try in the first place.

Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.