Philosophy Quotes - Page 12

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline.

Seneca

...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?

Gore Vidal

The problem, Paulinus, is not that we have a short life, but that we waste time. Life is long and there is enough of it for satisfying personal accomplishments if we use our hours well. But when time is squandered in the pursuit of pleasure or in vain idleness, when it is spent with no real purpose, the finality of death fast approaches and it is only then, when we are forced to, that we, at last, take a good hard look at how we have spent our life- just as we become aware that it is ending. Thus the time we are given is not brief, but we make it so. We do not lack time; on the contrary, there is so much of it that we waste an awful lot

Seneca the elder

The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

Debasish Mridha

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

Eugène Delacroix

The greatest unity comes from the greatest differences which are brought together in relationship.

Saunsea

How mighty you are as death comes upon you and your color fades. Yet from life and lush to bold array, screaming into the night.

Kellie Elmore

To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.

Bryan Magee

The merciful Providence - or whatever power there is in the universe - has so ordained things that our little world will go on without us. Indeed, it will not miss us for long. It is a comfort to know that the waters close over us quickly. Only a few remember the splash and struggle, and fancy it important, really....I daresay we are making all this fuss for nothing.

Anne Sullivan Macy

When humanity dies, what happens to all the people?

Anthony T.Hincks

Our goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of life is happiness.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of our life.

Debasish Mridha

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

R. Scott Bakker

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

Oscar Wilde

We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

Naoki Higashida

Schooling gives you knowledge, but education makes you wise.

Debasish Mridha

To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.

Debasish Mridha

How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to be educated and wise, you must open your heart, expand your mind, be accepting and ready to change.

Debasish Mridha

Better to be able to love than to be loveable.

Amanda Mosher

Decision and purpose directed actions define destination.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from actions.

Debasish Mridha

Be kind! Go and burn the world with the fire of your love.

Debasish Mridha

You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky.

Anthony T.Hincks

Every morning most of the people wake up alive than dead, so I do have a faith there is still some goodness left in the man.

Amit Kalantri

As long love exist in this so do hatred

Hatred is a curse that only love can cure.

Anthony T.Hincks

Hatred may last a lifetime, but love is ever lasting.

Anthony T.Hincks

So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and nebulae for sandals, Fausto's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they.

Thomas Pynchon

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

Jeanette Winterson

Utopia never really is. And the perfection we seek will always disappoint.

Daniel Xiao Wang

Death is Perfection's reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers.

Solange nicole

But one day you're going to wake up to the smell of a friend making burnt toast and warm coffee, and you're going to smile with relief knowing you made it. Knowing somebody found ways to love you.

Vanessa Hogg

There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way.

Robert M. Pirsig

Perfection isn't something that we can see and it isn't something that we can touch, but it exists here on Earth.It resides in each and everyone of us within our hearts.It's called LOVE!

Anthony T.Hincks

I wonder whether the Christmas feeling has anything to do with the sixth sense. Perhaps we're a little more the angels at Christmas than we are during the rest of the year. And Christmas is about all the other senses. I can smell Christmas, I can taste Christmas, and I can see and hear it.

Jostein Gaarder

If we fought wars with laughter instead of bullets, you would die laughing instead of just dying.

Anthony T.Hincks

A prize fight is much like eating an ice-cream.Someone has to take a good licking!

Anthony T.Hincks

In a fight to the death,I would in no doubt throw the fight.signed.....A pacifist

Anthony T.Hincks

We defy augury. There is special providence inthe fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not tocome, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—thereadiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is'tto leave betimes, let be. (Hamlet 5.2.217-224)

William Shakespeare

Create your own community of liberation. From this moment on, direct your most concerted efforts, your best work, and your greatest feats of imagination toward creating the impossible community, and do so first of all precisely where you are, with those around you.

John P. Clark

When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.

Jean Baudrillard

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.

Michael Munro

Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?

Debasish Mridha

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

Aristotle

This also means that philosophy itself must not take itself as established in the truths it has managed to utter, that philosophy is an ever-renewed experiment of its own beginning, and finally, that radical reflection is conscious of its own dependence on an unreflected life that is its initial, constant, and final situation.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Gustave Courbet

We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.

Mamoru Oshii

When I sleep tonight I dream of what I will imagine tomorrow.

T.A. Uner

At times you have to fight really hard to remember it. Fight within your mind’s dungeons and bring it out alive before it could have been killed and buried forever by the demons living deep down inside your mind’s dungeons.

Avijeet Das

In the matters of your life don't take orders, take decisions.

Amit Kalantri

Don't spend a lifetime regretting the decisions that you made. Chances are, that someone else would have made them for you anyway.

Anthony T.Hincks

A leader is firm enough to be responsive to changes.

Debasish Mridha

Live within and without your core of being.

Truth Devour

There is something I just realizedThat I never knew before.I can't explain the reasons,But I know that I want more.

Guess!

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward.

Debasish Mridha

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.

Amit Kalantri

Curiosity is god’s greatest gift to man, but my gift is a little amplified.

Onaiza Khan

Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear: Tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as 'I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world'.Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to new striving and suffering. And not merely 'some day': now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over. For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

Erwin Schrödinger

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