Philosophy Quotes - Page 39

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in that way. For a book has the remarkable property that it can be interpreted any way you wish. If one talks like a book one’s conversation acquires this property too. I kept quite soberly to the usual formulas. She was surprised, as I’d expected; that can’t be denied. To describe to myself how she looked is difficult. She seemed multifaceted; yes just about like the still to be published but announced commentary to my book, a commentary capable of any interpretation. One word and she would have laughed at me; another and she would have been moved; still another and she would have shunned me; but no such word came to my lips. I remained solemnly unemotional and kept to the ritual.― ‘She had known me for such a short time’, dear God, it’s only on the strait path of engagement one meets such difficulties, not the primrose path of love.”―from_Either/Or: A Fragment of Life_. Abridged, Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Alastair Hannay, p. 312

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

You may have fallen down, but you can get back up again. You may have doors shut, but new doors will open for you. You may have been lied on, but the truth will come to the light. You may have been hurt, but the pain will pass. You are a survivor. You have a history of surviving.

We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.

Let your dreams be a manifestation of your vision.

When you sweeten your knowledge and experience with your thoughts, it becomes your wisdom.

A fool thinks that he can cheat others, but a prudent man knows that he can only cheat himself.

Dreams come true if we can pursue them by overcoming the fear of failure.

If you ask me I think the greatest breakthrough each and everyone of us need is not on finance, marriage, work, relationship, own house, car but self. The first breakthrough should start from being selfish.

Gratitude transforms our mindset from enough to abundance and opens the window of limitless potentials.

Self-observation is simply the observation of an internal state and an external event. It is pure awareness, which gives one the ability to choose one's actions. Only by having the choice can one perform what is right.

I didn't come from a success lineage but I am so glad that my earthly lineage is not my final story because when I gave my life to Jesus twelve years back, God interrupted my story.

Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation.

I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.

To love is to let someone live in the goodness of your heart.

Life has dazzling beauty. To see it, open the window of the mind and remove the curtain of conformity.

[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist­ ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and oppressed, the very existence of a state is a fact of violence (in the same sense in which, for example, Robespierre said, in his justification of the regicide, that one does not have to prove that the king committed any specific crimes, since the very existence of the king is a crime, an offence against the freedom of the people). In this strict sense, every violence of the oppressed against the ruling class and its state is ultimately ‘defensive’. If we do not concede this point, we volens nolens ‘normalize’ the state and accept that its violence is merely a matter of contin­ gent excesses (to be dealt with through democratic reforms).

Be a smile on someone's lips.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

We can't go back to who we once were. We can only go on and become the person we were meant to be.

Myslím, že na místa, kde se odvíjely rozhodující události našich životů, stojí za to občas zavítat, abychom zjistili: nemáme sami se sebou nic společného.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without itself being changed. Secondly, things with dimensions are potential of division. But the starting-point for all existence must be wholly real and not potential in any way: though things that get realized begin as potential, preceding them is the source of their realization which must already be real. Thirdly, living bodies are superior to other bodies; and what makes a body living is not the dimensions which make it a body (for then everything with dimensions would be living), but something more excellent like a soul. The most excellent existent of all then cannot be a body. So when the scriptures ascribe dimensions to God they are using spatial extension to symbolize the extent of God's power; just as they ascribe bodily organs to God as metaphors for their functions, and postures like sitting or standing to symbolize authority or strength.

Theres a remarkable amount of strength residing in those who move forward without being able to physically move. Ones that carry the weight of illness or a disability, they battle wars most know nothing about. They are the true warriors of the world, the ones who have every reason to quit but never do.

Like the sun, touch someone with the warmth of your kindness.

Life is meant to create memories not money.

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

A free man does not do what must be done, but what should be done.

The secret of success is a pleasant personality with a sincere enthusiastic attitude.

It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it.

A good leader is one who reveals to you your own potential and then inspires and shows you how to reach your potential.

In order to get positive results, fill your mind with positive thoughts and take action.

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

The thing about 'colour' is that it's not all about the money or the prestige, but it's about showing what life is all about. Without it...

Life is about the moments you create,that you can keep with you forever.After everything is over,That is what we have or what we are left with.

Seek knowledge to amaze yourself endlessly.

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found.

Life begins when you learn that life is an opportunity.

A true lover never wants anything but gives with all his heart.

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.

With love, don’t desire to tie someone down but to set them free.

Kindness is sweeter than your sweet voice.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

Don’t feel shy—kiss. Kiss just to feel the joy of life and to get lost in the beauty of love.

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

To change the world, change yourself first.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.

Just love, just feel the love, longing for love, nothing else matters.

Let us go beyond the boundaries of right and wrong. Let us vanish in the beauty of love.

The desire to belong is in every mind.

Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.

In that light, philosophy is not so much--or not simply--'the love of wisdom,' but instead marks the passage from wonder as a noun to wonder as a verb. Philosophy is the love of wisdom to the extent that it remains an incitement to it.