Philosophy Quotes - Page 38

One who knows the Self, knows God.

You can change your mind, don't let your mind change you

Gratitude opens a clenched fist and a closed heart.

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

Live as though you will lose your power of love and attraction at any moment.

Don't go to sleep doused in hatred.Instead go to sleep snuggled in love.

Love life. Live your life with joy so you may fill the world with joy. Let no one leave your presence without feeling the joy of life.

Respect is a one way street, it goes from bottom to top

The Self is the measure of everything.

I have a little moral trouble with the term “mankind”, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term “humanity” over it, and the term “human” over “man”.

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

To find a focus, learn to love and dream.

Successful companies are built by investing large amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

I grew up once, I decided never to do it again

Life is an illusion. Don’t forget to enjoy the magnificence of magic.

No one can fall in your love without your acceptance.

A poet is an unpaid laborer of a mine where he digs into the mountain to find rough diamonds. He then polishes them with his imagination and emotion to share with everyone.

Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice.

Each minute wasted with a shark is a missed opportunity to enjoy being with a Dolphin

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Problems are very complicated when you don't know the solutions.

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.

Not the sadness, but the happiness, is the ultimate purpose of life.

If people are jealous of you, it means you are worth something.

It's when we kiss that I feel your blood within my veins and your heartbeat within my soul.

But here's the most incredible thing about it: the philosopher isn't proposing that as a concept; he's simply articulating what humans believe about themselves. That first they thing and therefore then they exist.What follows on from that is even worse: that since humans live that way, thinking that first they thing and then they exist, they also think that anything that doesn't think, also doesn't fully exist. Trees, the sea, the fish in the sea, the sun, the moon, a hill or a whole mountain range. None of that exists all the way; it exists on a second plane of existence, a lesser existence. Therefore, it deserves to be merchandise or food or background for humans and nothing more.

A child thinks and acts like a child. But when you are grown, you act and think like an adult. Too many people are still childish and immature and fail to realize it's a setback in their lives.

In life, every step you take is an adventure. Never fear to venture and never forget to enjoy.

Back therefore we find ourselves returning. Back to the wisdom of the plough; back to the wisdom of those who follow the sea. It is all a matter of the wheel coming full-circle. For the sophisticated system of mental reactions to which we finally give our adherence is only the intellectualised reproduction of what more happily constituted natures, without knowing what they possess, possess. Thus between true philosophers and the true simple people there is a magnetic understanding; whereas, the clever ones whose bastard culture only divorces them from the wisdom of the earth remain pilloried and paralysed on the prongs of their own conceit".

We are here, not to be someone, but to live joyfully, blissfully and love everyone.

When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King's Men)

My love flew over the boundary of time with incredible beauty and notorious rhyme.

The greatest investment in life is the investment of unconditional love, as a profit you will get the greatest gift of life: happiness.

Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.

If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it.

You will only have what you give away.

Clouds are on top for a reason. They float so high because they refuse to carry any burden!

Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater.

Oh my dear, no matter who you are, where you are, or how you are, I can hear your song. I can feel your pain, and I really care.

Life is like an echo; if you love life, it loves you back.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.

You are the most magnificent flower. Your beauty is immeasurable and incredible. The universe created you with all of her love and power to see herself in you.

Some people feel the coolness of winter and complain. Some people endure, enjoy, and wait for spring.

You cannot live with inner tranquility and peace when you hate others.

A heart filled with love never dries out by giving away love. It is like the ocean with unending waves.

Be conscious of your pleasantness.

When I was very young and in the cave of Trophonius I forgot to laugh. Then, when I got older, when I opened my eyes and saw the real world, I began to laugh and I haven’t stopped since. I saw that the meaning of life was to get a livelihood, that the goal of life was to be a High Court judge, that the bright joy of love was to marry a well-off girl, that the blessing of friendship was to help each other out of a financial tight spot, that wisdom was what the majority said it was, that passion was to give a speech, that courage was to risk being fined 10 rix-dollars, that cordiality was to say ‘You’re welcome’ after a meal, and that the fear of God was to go to communion once a year. That’s what I saw. And I laughed.

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

This world is full of kind and compassionate people just like you.

The first stanza of Eyes In Moonlight Drown, a poem from DeadVerse.With your face framed in a halo of stars,your hair melts into trailing clouds,and your eyes in moonlight drown.A man could lose himselfin those freckled irises,reflecting the galaxies above;surely he could fall into their promiseof eternity, of Heaven, of love.Your lips glisten, part, and beckon,a smile of warm invitation,a suggestion of sweet intensity,a loss of self in addictive agony.For we translate these aestheticsinto something mystical;ideas of fantasy, of fiction,obscuring the clinical truthof chemical reactions,electric sparks, responsesas sure as gravity,measurable yet beyond cold,above philosophy and below truth.

Life is about happiness—not about success.

Set as higher dimensional beings walking the earth today, who must INcarnate (there is no REincarnation if there is no time. Exception: descending spirals which crystallize in lower frequencies) to live in the various dream worlds (this one included) with the final "kick"/baptism by water, pulling up ALL the densities/dimensions through LOVE.

Today, death is your opponent.

When we change, our environment also has to change so as to be in alignment with what we are.

A week is an eternity between lovers.

I live with a passionate passion.

Do more than expected, promise less than you can keep.