Philosophy Quotes - Page 12

There is a gap between the mind and the world, and (as far as anybody knows) you need to posit internal representations if you are to have a hope of getting across it. Mind the gap. You’ll regret it if you don't.

Wisdom comes from introspection.

When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge than to examine the acts of citizens and to decide whether or not they conform to the law as written; then the standard of the just or the unjust, which is to be the norm of conduct for the ignorant as well as for the philosophic citizen, is not a matter of controversy but of fact; then only are citizens not subject to the petty tyrannies of the many which are the more cruel as the distance between the oppressed and the oppressor is less, and which are far more fatal than those of a single man, for the despotism of many can only be corrected by the despotism of one; the cruelty of a single despot is proportioned, not to his might, but to the obstacles he encounters.

When I found you, I found my world where I can get lost without any reason.

Turn your heart into a temple of beauty and kindness.With tears of love, wash the world from hatred and sadness.

Your value depends on how much love you gave away, not on how much money you have accumulated.

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

I dream my life, and then l live in my dreams.

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

Hate is bait for the devil, love is the gate to god

When there is nonjudgmental love then there is no giving up.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Animals are here to live their lives. We are here to live ours. We can live well without eating them. How pathetic it is that we have to eat a life just to live our lives!

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love.

What "wasting time" means? At the time we glorify self instead of glorify God, at that time we are wasting our time as... God is Time.

Sometimes people come into our lives to make us a softer person, other times they come to teach us to let go, and occasionally the relationship wasn’t a lesson about the relationship ‘us’, but a lesson about the relationship you have with yourself.

Even as a man just recovering from illness walks only so far as he is obliged to go, with a slow and weary step, so the converted sinner journeys along as far as God commands him but slowly and wearily, until he attains a spirit of true devotion, and then, like a sound man, he not only gets along, but he runs and leaps in the way of God's Commands, and hastens gladly along the paths of heavenly counsels and inspirations.

At the end of my life I want to say, “I lived every moment of it.

lose weight, eat backwards.

There is no absolute truth. There is only your truth.

If a society does not value love and kindness, that society has no value.

Losing something is difficult while gaining something is easier. So try to gain beauty and make your life prettier.

Your intelligence is defined by your intuitive question not by your definitive answers.

Love must be as beautiful as spring flowers and as bright as the morning sun.

…This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the “subject” (since Christianity) is the one who suffers: where there is a wound, there is a subject: die Wunde! die Wunde! says Parsifal, thereby becoming “himself”; and the deeper the wound, at the body’s center (at the “heart”), the more the subject becomes a subject: for the subject is intimacy (“The wound…is of a frightful intimacy”). Such is love’s wound: a radical chasm (at the “roots” of being), which cannot be closed, and out of which the subject drains, constituting himself as a subject in this very draining.”―from_A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments_. Translated by Richard Howard, p. 189

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society

Art is an expression of inner beauty.

O principal é não mentir. Quem mente para si mesmo e dá ouvido à sua própria mentira chega a tal extremo que não consegue ver nenhuma verdade em si ou naqueles que o rodeiam e, por conseguinte, perde completamente o respeito por si e pelos outros. (...) Quem mente a si próprio pode ser o primeiro a ofender-se. Às vezes, é tão agradável uma pessoa se ofender, não é verdade? O indivíduo sabe que ninguém o injuriou, que tudo não passa de simples invenção, que ele próprio mentiu e exagerou apenas para criar um quadro, para fazer de um grão uma montanha - sabe tudo e, no entanto, se ofende. Ofende-se a ponto se sentir prazer na ofensa e, desse modo, atinge o verdadeiro ódio...

Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.

Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

Dresses don't look beautiful on hangers.

You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and work they endured for it.

Be the light in the darkness to inspire and to enlighten others.

Mma Ramotswe had listened to a World Service broadcast on her radio one day which had simply taken her breath away. It was about philosophers who called themselves existentialists and who, as far as Mma Ramotswe could ascertain, lived in France. These French people said that you should just live in a way which made you feel real, and that the real thing to do was the right thing too. Mma Ramotswe had listened in astonishment. You did not have to go to France to meet existentialists, she reflected; there were many existentialists right here in Botswana. Note Mokoti, for example. She had been married to an existentialist herself, without even knowing it. Note, that selfish man who never once put himself out for another--not even for his wife--would have approved of existentialists, and they of him. It was very existentialist, perhaps, to go out to bars every night while your pregnant wife stayed at home, and even more existentialist to go off with girls--young existentialist girls--you met in bars. It was a good life being an existentialist, although not too good for all the other, nonexistentialist people around one.

I have graduated to the extent of not asking what is happening in my life because I trust the maker(God).

Before believing, find the truth; before accepting, try to understand.

My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you’d probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science.

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

For you the guy should be the one who will look like the God among the guys.

Without poetry, love has no exuberance.

A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

Thoughts are powerful; before you were born, you were one.

When you have a purpose in life it becomes the light to show you the path toward your destination.

You are knowledgeable when you know yourself.

What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.

Love everyone, love everything, love every moment, and become the love.

Anger is a fire of resentment which will burn the bearer and not the receiver.

Be the gardener of gratitude to grow flowers of happiness in your garden.

Life is beautiful and so are you.

My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul.

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

Fear stagnation not adventure.

Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits.

I love everyone and everything. I belong to everyone and everything. I am a citizen of this world. I created my own universe. I don’t want to belong to an ideology or belief system. I don’t want to be imprisoned by someone else’s conforming thoughts. I only accept that which is beautiful, loving, and kind. I want to belong to this universe until I am gone. We are one; we are kin. So my religion is love and kindness is my prayer. Altruism is my path. Peace is my palace where I dwell with humility and happiness.

Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.