Philosophical Quotes - Page 2

Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond.

K.M. Tepe

With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel,Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to and fro:Her ruthless will has just deposed once fearful kingsWhile trustless still, from low she lifts a conquered head;No cries of misery she hears, no tears she heeds,But steely hearted laughs at groans her deeds have wrung.Such is a game she plays, and so she tests her strength;Of mighty power she makes parade when one short hourSees happiness from utter desolation grow.(A Consolation of Philosophy, Book II, translated by V.E. Watts)

Boethius - Queen Elizabeth I translation

It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it.

Hate is bait for the devil, love is the gate to god

Benny Bellamacina

There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.

Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.

Time plays no role in the life of one man—the subtle consciousness of it floating past me is more than enough. Years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds—what does it matter? Floating by, it rubs against my skin, face, and hair—wearing me down, yet polishing me all the while. Time is like fine grains of sand in a desert storm. At first, you don’t pay any attention to it, but the more it hits you in the face, the more aware of it you become, the more annoying it gets until, one day, you find yourself suffocating. The weight of it eventually bends your spine, until you are crawling on your hands and knees, unable to stand straight. Then comes the time to crawl back into the womb, crawl inside and wait for rebirth.

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

Need doesn't care about being sensible.

If you can hear the birds singing, you're in the right place

Benny Bellamacina

When your diary is full and your life is empty, get a date

Benny Bellamacina

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn

George R.R. Martin

Only you are yours.

If I breathe, what will my heart think?If I vomit, what will my soul think?

Xi Chuan

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.

It’s important to look at the big picture of life, as long as it’s not through a small screen

Benny Bellamacina

A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.

Rohinton Mistry

These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre.

In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.

Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up. Ray Levine was one of those people.

The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind

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Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red

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Woe to any sheep that hunts with wolves - rjs

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A sheep that walks amongst wolves is called dinner - rjs

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It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes the memory remains: the awareness of the gazelle, the instinct of the antelope. The wind whispers through the grass. A shadow flits between the trees. And up speaks the little voice that goes. Shhhh, it's close now. Close.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

Bertrand Russell

I should have bailed. That little voice had my back. That little voice is older than I am. It's older than the oldest person who ever lived. I should have listened to that voice.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

Henry David Thoreau

In the "Brihadaranyaka Upanishad" it is said that it is not the physical person who is attractive, but it is the Atman residing in that person which attracts us. It is that which provides all our delights. Love for someone, the delight experience in that love, both come from the source we call God.

Swami Ritajananda

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.

Christopher Earle

It only takes one person, one voice from somewhere beyond, to save a life.

Kirsten Arcadio

What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.

No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian of their deep and hidden life; and no one is a good historian of the interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the exterior also...True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.

You are the best book you could ever write phi

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Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials

Christopher Earle

The Universe Conspires....to get what you truly desire

Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed?

There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.

WISEGod decides different paths for us,That a single soul to follow.He trains us through our journeys to earth,And gives us misery and sorrow.Sufferings or happiness, none stay forever,They come and go like waves,A wise treats both as gifts of God,Balanced he always behaves.From - RAINS OF GEMS ISBN 978-4828-1304-3

Dipak Mukhopadhyay

If you want to know what's going on, keep your mind in the fridge or it might go off.

Benny Bellamacina

Better to have too much time to manage, than too much money that manages all your time

Benny Bellamacina

Running Doesn't Change Anything...Dying Does.

Gaurav Dashputra

--perhaps a soul is what you have spent your life making, not a piece of metaphysical equipment shipped ready-made from the factory, another myth like original sin, which you were outfitted with at birth and could somehow lose, like men high and low sometimes lost their humanity--

Hiding things is the most foolish thing that annihilates correlation.

Waqas Bin Ehsan

Only those exceptional at mimicking others feel at ease in the world.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

Robert M. Pirsig

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

John G. Neihardt

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. You can read it in his face, in his stance. Yet his complaint that a man’s life is no bargain masks the actual case with him. Which is that men will not do as he wishes them to. Have never done, never will do. That’s the way of things with him and his life is so balked about by difficulty and become so altered of its intended architecture that he is little more than a walking hovel hardly fit to house the human spirit at all. Can he say, such a man, that there is no malign thing set against him? That there is no power and no force and no cause? What manner of heretic could doubt agency and claimant alike? Can he believe that the wreckage of his existence is unentailed? No liens, no creditors? That gods of vengeance and of compassion alike lie sleeping in their crypt and whether our cries are for an accounting or for the destruction of the ledgers altogether they must evoke only the same silence and that it is this silence which will prevail?

Cormac McCarthy

Behind every wolf in sheep's clothing is a trail of dead sheep - rjs

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