Philosophy Quotes - Page 32

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.

Virtue creates reputation, but action brings success.

I am as abundant as the universe because I am a child of the universe.

There are not many things that are more powerful than love.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

For a thought to manifest on the earth realm, a sacrifice must occur.

Meditation is a way of finding inner quietness and inner tranquility.

We exist just to feel the joy of life.

Don’t look outside in the world or in wilderness to find the peace, look inside your heart, where it resides.

True courage is in knowing that there is nothing to scare you.

For success, focus on possibilities not problems.

A Company of a good friend is worth thousand people around you or else you are Gathering a Crowd

Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.

Karma means ‘action’. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

The love and hope that we are born with is what keeps us relentlessly moving toward joy. We get the most happiness from the simplicity of being devoid of wants and needs.

The best friend you will ever find is you. You must love yourself with joy to fill your heart with bliss and happiness.

BLACK AND WHITEI was born intoA religion of Light,But with so many otherReligions andPhilosophies,How do I know whichONEIs right?Is it notMy birthrightTo seek out the light?To find TruthAfter surveying all the proof,Am I supposedTo loveOr fight?And why do all those whoTry to guide me,Always start by dividingAnd multiplying me – From what they considerWrong or right?I thought,There were no wallsFor whoever beams truth and light.And how can one speak on Light's behalf,lf all they doIs act black,But talk WHITE?

Every daring adventure opens a new magnificent frontier.

If knowledge is a glass of water, then wisdom is the unlimited, infinite and not yet invented ocean.

You are born with the power to change your life by simply changing your thoughts.

You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day.

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

Explore the endless possibilities in life.

Kindness is the best philosophy.

Nothing else can explain love except love.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

The secret to living is loving.

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

A death in reverse is the rewinding of life. I do not die of old age, in a bed surrounded by strangers my loved ones paid to take care of me. I die in reverse. I die falling backinto a younger age. From my forty-five years to twenty-five. To sixteen. When we were in love. To fourteen: when we first met. To five. To one. To the hospital my mother died at from the complications of my existence. A life for a life.

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

The more beauty you see, the more beautiful you become.

Memories are reality's ghosts

Before you give up, let the hope shine again.

Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask , and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be.

Knowledge is a potential power when we use it to gain wisdom through reflection and careful actions.

Life is not about tomorrow. Life is about living your fullest today.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.

Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

All of my life God has allowed me to share prospectives with people who are different. You cannot lead people whose prospective you are not willing to understand.

Politics, like insurance, security, pharmaceutical and religious institutions all work the same. They sell the idea of a threat along with the antidote. Marketing 101.

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.

A moment of kindness can bring infinite beauty in life.

Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts.

No matter what, love everyone because everyone is craving love.

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.

Any obstacle is an opportunity to gain strength and think differently.

You are born for service, service is love, service is joy, service brings endless peace and happiness.

She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole world, because if the whole world had seen it, it would have had the power to stop all wars and hatred on the face of the planet, or at lease there would have been some long ceasefires.

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.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Art is a reflection of poetry and beauty of the heart and mind without the use of any words.

We should bloom like a flower without reservation or restriction, but with all our energy, power, and great love for this world.

Don't ever lest small stuff derail you from dreams.