Philosophical Quotes

Things aren't different. Things are things.

There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

Epicurus

Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor.

C.G. Jung

No man is an island, no man stands alone

Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.

Jeffrey Eugenides

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

It all begins with goodness in the heart.

While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in.silently and greyly, with its head bowed and its face covered.

If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power, that is the simple sense of the ontological proof. And if there is art enough a lie can enlighten us as well as the truth. What is the truth anyway, that truth? As we know ourselves we are fake objects, fakes, bundles of illusions. Can you determine exactly what you felt or thought or did?

Over and over again I have said that there is no way out of the present impasse. If we were wide awake we would be instantly struck by the horrors which surround us ... We would drop our tools, quit our jobs, deny our obligations, pay no taxes, observe no laws, and so on. Could the man or woman who is thoroughly awakened possibly do the crazy things which are now expected of him or her every moment of the day?

I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave

Stanley Victor Paskavich

You know what turns dirt into diamonds?""Pressure. Weight. Heat...""The geological equivalent of torture.

Some people were destined to have a significant other.Some people were destined for greatness.But few others were destined to be soldiers, to be warriors, to be alone.That is me.It is not a path that i have chosen, but it is a path that i must walk.Some may think this is sad, but i have come to peace with it.Because i am and always will be a soldier, a warrior...Alone.

Chris Söderström

Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.

..chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell...

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned

Alfred Tennyson

Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.

Maybe they were born of karma, their own or their parents', Zack thought; maybe the universe had a purpose for them, and they were what they were because the world needed them to be that way.

Jackie Trippier Holt

Good and Bad is inside everybody. The difference is that the Good remember when they have also been bad and the Bad remember when they have only been good.

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.

Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.

Wil Zeus

rational of whatever is happening all around came together in a train of light which, when it traverse in return, is the pervasive expression of one's own mind

ngr

life is fair, truth is faith

ngr

Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

Do you know how a pearl comes to be?""Oysters make them, from a bit of sand.""Aiyah. From a bit of sand." He rolled the pearl between his fingers. "All pearls begin as something unpleasant that the oysters cannot expel from themselves, even though they may want to. So they embrace these things that will not leave them, shaping them and smoothing away the sharp edges, until over time, they make of these unwanted things great treasures.

The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

Terry Pratchett

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

The best way to move forward is to stop

Benny Bellamacina

We are all only men, defined by our choices.

I.E. Castellano

Perhaps it is a good thing that we don't live long enough to realize how redundant things seem :)

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.

A Pause tends the existence of any definition to its end.

Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.

William Shakespeare

We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it." Master Kai

(Speaking about ponies engaging in a game of running around and chasing a ball with "imaginary riders")Along with everything else about it, it seemed to be a parable for life. Going forwards and backwards and round in circles, striving ever forward only to have to run like crazy backwards to get the ball again, realizing that your enemy is after the same goal and you're actually helping him toward it and getting roughed up and possibly killed while you're at it but still feeling the comradeship of being in the game all together.

In Unity we can be enslaved, and in Unity we can also come together as individuals." Old Woman

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

What are you thinking?""Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see.""Everything down there is exactly the same," he said. "You're the one that's different.

Cassandra Clare

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

Jace turned to look over his shoulder, the wind whipping his hair into tangles. "What are you thinking?" he called back to her."Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see.""Everything down there is exactly the same," he said. "You're the one that's different.

Cassandra Clare

You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Amunhotep El Bey

An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.

As colors are formed by the combination of Red, Green and Blue : Similarly is life which is a combination of Love, Faith and Peace..

Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.

Fang Chen

I blame God for all the good things that happened in my life to spite him I will be good to others

rassool jibraeel snyman

It's our founding knowledge that diverts us from the truth

Kloby

In the big scheme of things, all's we really need, is a little love

Benny Bellamacina

My philosophical heart will not judge thee

Benny Bellamacina

In the big scheme of things, a little love is all we need

Benny Bellamacina

Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.

You think that the world we live in is ordinary. We make noise and static to fill the empty spaces where ghosts live. We let other people grow our food, bleach our clothes. We seal ourselves in, clean the dirt from our skins, eat of animals whose blood does not stain our hands. We long ago left the ways of our ancestors, oracles and blood sacrifice, traffic with the spirit world, listening for the voices out of stones and trees. But maybe sometimes you have felt the uncanny, alone at night in a dark wood, or waiting by the edge of the ocean for the tide to come in. We have paved over the ancient world, but that does not mean we have erased it.

I am smart because I know I nothing.

Plato

Always recycle wasted time

Benny Bellamacina

When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil.

Charles Dickens

The trouble with life is that we lead it forwards and understand it backwards.

N. Lombardi Jr.

The mind is a vast place and its hungers far sharper than the body's

Edward W. Robertson

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