Philosophy Quotes - Page 14

Trees are the earth's example of beauty, duty, wisdom and happiness.

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

Live as if life is for loving and giving.

And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.

I am overflowing with love, peace, joy, happiness and abundance.” Let this be your morning prayer.

Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

Regarding beliefs and belief systems: We argue what and how we feel, rather than what we - actually - know or assume to be facts or factual evidence. Thus, it is justifiably prudent to challenge that which has been adopted or enforced by tradition. If such examination is discouraged by fearful tactics - we must not shy away from soulful searching.

Rockabye Baby, in the treetopDont you know a treetopis no safe place to rock?And who put you up there,and your cradle too?Baby,I think someone down herehas got it in for you!

Freedom begins in the mind of the individual. You'll never be able to do a particular thing if you don't navigate your thoughts positively. Complaining and neglecting to take action creates stagnation. Free your mind and the rest will follow.

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

Violence begins with the fork.

Happiness is an inner perception, not a defined destination.

Poetry is the essence and evidence of life.

If you are truly in love with this world and your life, then you will lose the sense of angst.

A sign of gratitude is a thankful smile.

Memories of the past are what drive us, whether to a life of beauty or a life of insanity is up to us.

Don't be fooled. It's good to be rich and to have money, but know that money is not everything the way people hyped it. People who claim to have more money or rich can't still can't afford what they want, nomatter how much they have. Things like love, friendship , happiness, peaceful mind, inner peace and whatever they so desire to have.

Science was born, when religion failed to find the God!

We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast.

You think that you're in control of your life.Well, think again.

Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...

You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite.

When something is dirty you wash it. That's what my mum always said.Yet...When you have dirty money and you launder it, people jump up and down.I guess that's life.

The universe and the law of attraction speak a language that knows no words, only discerning your intent through sacrifice and what you are willing to give up.

...even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

In the midst of life’s ups and down, beginnings and endings, let us live our life, let us be joyful, let us be happy.

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, And the reason of things, And to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: And I find more bitter than death, the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands-

Stop looking at people's religions. Try to look at the goodness within them.

The beauty of having faith, is that no matter what the time of day, whether it be day or night I know that someone is always there with me to give me comfort.It doesn't matter whether it is Buddha, God or Allah because whoever it is, is special to each of us. And that is the beauty of having faith.

Your life is your canvas. You are responsible for the beauty of your art.

A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words.

Peace begins with a touch of unconditional love.

To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.3. Charity is immoral.4. Pay for your own fucking schools.

Measure your day not by the money you earn but by the love you're giving away.

Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul.

So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder…

We see the light of our soul when we are blind with love.

A very beautiful day without love, kindness, and gratitude is a very wasted day.

My heart want to feel the touch.Feel the eternal love so much.

Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.

Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all. And maybe man deep down suspects this, really knows this, kind of dreams that it is true; but at the same time he does not want really to know it? May not human life on this earth be a kind of frozen fear of man at what he could possibly be? And every move he makes might not these moves be just to hide this awful fact? To twist it into something which he feels would make him rest and breathe a little easier? What man is is perhaps too much to be borne by man...

Your level of consciousness defines the beauty of your life and destiny.

Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue.

A huge part of losing weight is believing you have the power to do it.

Absolute equals nothingness.

When you forgive your enemy, you may no longer have one.

Just be kind to be wise and to be intelligent.

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.

The worst enemy in life is resentment.

Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.

I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within. Yet not everyone gets the message I send. So why do I even let these words begin? Maybe they will soak in one day at the right time. When the readers on a new path to find. So for now I'll continue to drop ink and not worry about what other people think.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees.

Somewhere between what is...and what can be...begs the question...what are you meant to be?

Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion.

Every morning we begin our new life with new joy. So let it be beautiful.

It ain't no broken.

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

What you see and what you listen to will determine how high you will go.

I came here to show you the way to happiness is not through success but through love, compassion, and kindness.