Philosophy Quotes - Page 13

Most of us would simply prefer things to remain the same-- the "Status que" looks more appealing, especially when we think that somehow we are benefiting. accordingly, incumbency with all its faults is generally more assuring than a future that risks being in doubt, risks placing us in some positions we are unsure of. (p. xii, emphasis in general.

Hamidreza Bagheri

Folks in Irihs might not be as welcoming as they were here. Resentment lingers.''So we're going to be in danger.''No more than any other day of your life.

Every secret of the body was rendered up--bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an intestine or an optic nerve. From this new and intimate perspective, [Briony] learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

Hillel the Elder

If mankind was playing a baseball game, he would still be choosing his lineup after the game was over.

Anthony T.Hincks

Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his own species.

Rafael Sabatini

DEMONS MUST BE RELIGIOUSDue to exorcism based on each religion's practices

Kamil Ali

Sticking a straw up your butt won't get rid of the constipation.

Jess H

The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious.

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

Bernie Glassman

SELF HELPUse the same amount of energy required to pull others down, to uplift yourself insteadKamil Ali

Kamil Ali

You can take the entire world of physics with all of its macrocosm and microcosm, its quantum mechanics and nuclear physics and reduce it to one word: energy. It's all energy. Scientists say that if you can't measure it, weight it, or see it, it doesn't exist. Well, no one has ever seen energy. We can see its effects, but not "it.

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

Debasish Mridha

Don't criticize me because of what I write, because for all you know, I could be right!

Anthony T.Hincks

...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.

René Descartes

The universe is perfect. All fault lies within the self.

We have become used to obstructionist ideas. In the name of modernisation we are unconsciously hindering the natural flow of life. The fact that we are irritated, depressed, and distressed speaks volumes of our illogical ambitions to acquire control of this planet. Mostly, philosophically challenged and scant respect for natural way of life is making us irrelevant.

Amitav Chowdhury

So your High Priest and Sacerdote propose to kill Death.” Edroc

Christie Maurer

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

Friedrich Engels

Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.

Stewart Stafford

The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!

I hope you take the courage to pursue your dreams. I wish that you will have the determination to start the best day of your life everyday.

Diana Rose Morcilla

Somewhere between what is...and what can be...begs the question...what are you meant to be?

Manoj Vaz

Always stay one step a head, unless you’re already there

Benny Bellamacina

If you can't get everyone on your side, make sure they're right behind you.

Benny Bellamacina

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

Amunhotep El Bey

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

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

My philosophical heart will not judge thee

Benny Bellamacina

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

Need doesn't care about being sensible.

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

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

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

rassool jibraeel snyman

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

rassool jibraeel snyman

Woe to any sheep that hunts with wolves - rjs

rassool jibraeel snyman

A sheep that walks amongst wolves is called dinner - rjs

rassool jibraeel snyman

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

You are the best book you could ever write phi

rassool jibraeel snyman

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

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

rassool jibraeel snyman

Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time

Benny Bellamacina

This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

George R.R. Martin

This Self is never born, nor does It die. It did not spring from anything, nor did anything spring from It. This Ancient One is unborn, eternal, everlasting. It is not slain even though the body is slain.

Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born

rassool jibraeel snyman

It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless

rassool jibraeel snyman

We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu

May your eyes be the eyes of truthAnd guided from deception

rassool jibraeel snyman

Only by knowing yourself can you live honestly and find your own path.

Gregory Bassham

we live our lives from the "inside", from the vantage point of our own personal mini-cam on life. This gives us privileged access to what's going on inside our own heads. But sometimes we can be too close to ourselves to see us as we truly are. We lack perspective, objectivity. That's where friends can help. Friends can tell you when you're selfish or rude or making a total fool of yourself. Conversely, they can let you know when you're being kind or generous or need to lighten up on yourself.

Gregory Bassham

It's in out-of-the-ordinary situations - especially situations of challenge or adversity - that the most important differences between people shine through.

Gregory Bassham

If we forget the past, individually or as a culture, we lose knowledge that has already been gained, and we lose valuable tools by which our knowledge may grow.

we live best when we live for a cause greater than ourselves

Michael W. Austin

I don’t think it’s right that I’m part of the problem. I can’t be part of the solution if I’m part of the problem

Haruki Murakami

To solve your problems, stop worrying.

Debasish Mridha

a Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

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