Philosophy Quotes - Page 33

In darkness, be your own light.

The problem of knowing man is parallel to the religious problem of knowing God. In conventional Western theology the attempt is made to know God by thought, to make statements about God. It is assumed that I can know God in my thought. In mysticism, which is the consequent outcome of monotheism, the attempt is given up to know God by thought, and it is replaced by the experience of union with God in which there is no more room—and no need—for knowledge about God.

Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life.

Let us try to heal the mind first before we heal the body.

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,'said the dewdrop to the lake.

Where you are no is the reflection of your lifelong thoughts and actions.

Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not… and just like this…

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

Am I going with time slowly or is time going with me?

The water never stops, never gives up, and denies no faults in the path it takes,” he explained, my eyes still focused down the ravine, “It moves silently, only a mere trickle to entertain itself as it causes a massive gash in the world. This, Zack, is true power.

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

Those who can show love are always kind. Those who cannot show love cannot be kind.

Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair after defeat. Accept the changes in life placidly, knowing that autumn and winter come after summer.

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

Life is about finding yourself in the magnificence of life.

A simple act of kindness could be the source of great happiness.

It is so amazing that this mighty world changes with us when we change.

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.

Extend your loving and kind hands towards others. In return you will find that the whole universe will be kind to you.

No God, Religion, Race or Nation is higher than the humans.

The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'.

Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion.

..."I Love You."...Means the same to me now as it did when I first said it to you.

Stop the bleeding! Gauze the wound!" And his voice became much softer, "Those are the words... I've yet to write." He died with that exhale. He died in a steaming carmine pool of unwritten stories that incredibly cold night. He always thought his work would take the form of ink, pen and paper, but as the last glow dimmed in his eyes, he realized his most meaningful words were sloppily spilled and patched together using blood, bullet holes and concrete.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

if you are suffering without a belief in God, then there is not a lot of hope that your pain has any greater purpose in the grand scheme of the universe. Suffering is just a part of naturalistic evolution weeding you out of existence for something stronger and younger to take your place on the food chain.

Some people are disappointed in their life because they are trying to use the tools that God did not authorised them to use in their life, trying to build on a purpose that is not even attached in their personality.

Appreciate more to attract more,Feel more to understand more.Give away more to get more.Love more to live more.

Hope is the desire to bloom, but faith believes and visualizes the bloom.

All I want is to be at service of humanity, rather than being a teacher. I cannot teach anyone anything I can only make them think.

Love opens the most impossible gates in the world.

True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict.

Freedom from stress, freedom from anxiety, freedom from depression; freedom is autonomy from all that stagnates growth in this ever complex and noisy world. By the fear of being in the unknown, we often overlook and forget the serene view of being on the raft: the glowing virgin stars, the gentle ways that the waves moves, and the endless possibilities that exist under the sun. The fundamental principle of freedom is to be lost and our state of mind never differs too far from this analogy of being stranded in the middle of the ocean.

It's well known that love has power but I want to find out how much.

Love and learn from everyone,but follow your heart,and your inner conviction.

Maxims of Ptahhotep spoke a lot of sense; 'Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.' Now THAT I’ll give the green light to. The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable as precious stones.

There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.

Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

[W]hen one has a religious experience, what is 'true' is only that one has had that experience, not that its contents convey anything about reality. To determine that, one needs a way to verify the contents of a revelation, and that means science.

402Emotional position is part of it, but as an individual you are not your emotions, neither are you your intellect. These are things that you have . They're not things that you are . Therefore you have to start to become aware of the different requirements that human beings have, the different areas that they like to be satisfied in. Which means becoming aware of yourself. I mean, as a writer you're gonna have to understand pretty much the whole universe. But the best place to start is by understanding the inner universe. The entire universe – for one thing – only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality. So. To understand the universe there's worse advice than that which was carved above the shrine of the Delphi oracle. Where it just said: “Know thyself”. Understand yourself. Know thyself is a magical goal, but like I say to me there is very little difference between magic and creative art in any sense – the laws of one apply perfectly well to the other.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting...

I don't think I'm entirely on board with the 'do what you truly want to do' school of thought. Not without a little more nuance. There has to be an anchor in the wide-open space. Otherwise, 'doing what you truly want' isn't an authentic attempt at exploration -- it's just another hyper-individualistic credo masquerading as something grand. I mean we're all gung ho about pursuing personal freedom, but why do we want it? If we never constructively apply it to something beyond ourselves, and if it doesn't deepen our sense of connection and humanity, then what's the point?

I will meet you in that gap where consciousness meets unconsciousness.

When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

To awaken quite alone in a strange parallel universe is the priceless moment to a time traveler!

To expand your wings, be persistent in learning new things.

To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry things.

Hope is the beautiful dream of the soul.

But walking causes absorption. Walking interminably, taking in through your pores the height of the mountains when you are confronting them at length, breathing in the shape of the hills for hours at a time during a slow descent. The body becomes steeped in the earth it treads. And thus, gradually, it stops being in the landscape: it becomes the landscape. That doesn’t have to mean dissolution, as if the walker were fading away to become a mere inflection, a footnote. It’s more a flashing moment: sudden flame, time catching fire. And here, the feeling of eternity is all at once that vibration between presences. Eternity, here, in a spark.

Knowledge shall set the mind free.

But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

You shouldn’t expect a positive outcome when you have a negative thought process. Only positive thoughts can create positive results.

Flowers are nature's gift of love for you.

When you are in love nothing matters except the bliss of love.

Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy.