Philosophy Quotes - Page 8

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

To stop war, teach peace, love, cooperation, and most of all—forgiveness.

Whether you call yourself a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu or an Atheist, if you have kindness in your heart and compassion in your act, you are on the right path of religion.

Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, and patriots; who would defend it.

Always be positive, enjoy the music of rain on a rainy day.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

You only live when you truly get lost in love.

Don't wait, just sweat.

I am deeply in love with my life. With profound gratitude, I love and enjoy everything around me.

A stream of thoughts flows through one’s mind at a sacred-time.

You can never explain it. At its best, you can only feel love and beauty.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

Give yourself to a great cause, not only your possessions.

We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite.

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

Enjoy every moment. Today will never come back.

Fun is never gone because life is fun.

But he had expressed to Mme. du Chatelet the hope that a way out might lie in applying philosophy to history, and endeavoring to trace, beneath the flux of political events, the history of the human mind. 'Only philosophers should write history,' he said. 'In all nations, history is disfigured by fable, till at last philosophy comes to enlighten man; and when it does finally arrive in the midst of darkness, it finds the human mind so blinded centuries of error, that it can hardly undeceive it; it finds ceremonies, facts and monuments, heaped up to prove lies.' 'History,' he concludes, 'is after all nothing but a pack of tricks which we play upon the dead;' we transform the past to suit our wishes for the future, and in the upshot 'history proves that anything can be proved by history.

When you are doing something you love, you see the lover dancing in your heart.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

The thing that had been, it is that which shall be; And that which is done is that which shall be done.

Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness

Kindness is the best wisdom. Simplicity is the best achievement.

There is no such thing as Hardcore Philosophy or Hardcore Science. Real Science and Real Philosophy do not destroy each other, they simply fulfil and enrich each other.

You're only limited by your thoughts. You're limitless, boundless, endless and edgeless.

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power.

When death is the ultimate destination for all of us, why are we not enjoying our lives?

Look at the world around you and focus on the possibilities not the problem.

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

If we can teach everyone how to calm their minds, this world will see peace.

Are you thinking? Are you creating? Ask yourself whenever you feel boring?

I set free the phantoms of my imagination.

Oh my dear! I think about you always and miss you forever.

The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propositions of natural science, i.e. something that has nothing to do with philosophy: and then always, when someone else wished to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he had given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions. This method would be unsatisfying to the other - he would not have the feeling that we were teaching him philosophy - but it would be the only strictly correct method. My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

If it’s taking to long to get up the career ladder, get a career lift.

What we dream repeatedly, we become.

Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.

When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice.

At a time like this maybe the world is looking at us not just at a miracle crusade or sunday church service but the way we are living. Maybe they want to see whether what our Master left for us worked for us; there is a counter spirit to the spirit of fear, it is the love of God.

When someone is suffering from anxieties, depression, and stress, the only treatment is to change awareness and consciousness.

In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.

When you focus and accept the current moment with love, faith, and joyfulness, you are practicing mindfulness. That is better than controlling the universe.

At times, look back towards your ancient days, drink deep from the eternal fountain of wisdom long gone, and then look ahead.

A person who does not get attached to anything, and never forgets to do his duty, will achieve everything.

One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open.

Don’t let the opinions of others interfere with your true perception.

Zhuang Zhu also meant that the feet as such are small pieces of space, but their vocation (‘walking’) is to articulate the world’s space. The size of the foot, the gap between the legs, have no role, are never lined up anywhere. But they measure all the rest. Our feet form a compass that has no useful function, apart from evaluating distance. The legs survey. Their stride constitutes a serviceable measurement.

Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies.

Problems are the guiding lights along the way of life.

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

It is uncertainty which fills life with beauty, excitement, and joy.

Philosophy is the music of a judgmental mind and imaginative heart.

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

Adversity often defines dignity.

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

I am not upset that you don't love me, I am very happy to know that you are still living in my heart, in my love.

No one can steal my peace of mind without my consent.

Love is a heart's feeling, there is no understanding or judging.