Philosophy Quotes - Page 23

Life is an adventurous ride in a train we call time.

Debasish Mridha

Nourish yourself with the water of love to grow flowers of happiness in the garden of your heart.

Debasish Mridha

Do not follow conformity toward the darkness. Follow the light of wisdom to fill the world with happiness.

Debasish Mridha

Every moment in our lives brings the opportunity to love and appreciate this beautiful magical life.

Debasish Mridha

Be mindful and love yourself.

Debasish Mridha

Women are the flower in the garden of humanity.

Debasish Mridha

Every morning I drink a glass of water to be humble and simple like water.

Debasish Mridha

Women are soft, loving, and kind. Do not mistake softness and kindness as weakness. Water is soft, but stone cannot break the water. However, water can break the stone.

Debasish Mridha

Without women, humanity will be history.

Debasish Mridha

Let us express love to lead and lead to love.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

Listening is the art of love and appreciation.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

How can you reform when you are always busy conforming?

Debasish Mridha M.D.

Everything gets better with milk.

Debasish Mridha

Every morning do not go to work, but go to actualize your desire filled dreams.

Debasish Mridha

If you like to live an abundant life, express joy and gratitude for what you have.

Debasish Mridha

Gratitude is a choice which can change our lives for the better.

Debasish Mridha

Remember to be kind. Always.

Debasish Mridha

Tomorrow is a new day if you begin it today.

Debasish Mridha

Miracles are happening every moment. You just have to be ready to see them.

Debasish Mridha

Get lost in the beauty and tranquility of nature to find your true self again and again.

Debasish Mridha

Love is an all powerful, endless, mysterious, miraculous, primordial, attractive force that flows from one heart to another to unfold the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

True mastery, it turns out, is not found in accumulating each and every tool under the sun. True mastery is learning that there are really only a handful of tools, and it is the proper application with correct timing and setting that makes them so useful.

Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people

Benny Bellamacina

In life there are squares and there are circles, sometimes it's best to be an oblong

Benny Bellamacina

Do short people reach their full potential quicker?

Benny Bellamacina

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.

Debasish Mridha

The best writing is when one writes from the soul

... primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice - as in the dark knights of the ovens which pocked old earth history - and that current generations had to deny any command for sacrifice. Sol had written that whatever God now took in human consciousness - whether as a mere manifestation of the subconscious in all its revanchist needs or as a more conscious attempt at philosophical and ethical evolution - humankind could no longer agree to offer up sacrifice in God's name. Sacrifice and the agreement to sacrifice had written human history in blood.

There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Søren Kierkegaard

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Aristotle

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you?

K.L. Toth

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

Plato

The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to guide men by reason, but to restrain them by fear, so that they flee the evil rather than love virtues. Such people aim only to make others as wretched as they themselves are, so it is no wonder that they are generally burdensome and hateful to men.

It is an adherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others can make it safe or salutary to tie up their own hands. Still more obviously true is it, that by their own hands only can any positive and durable improvement of their circumstances in life be worked out.

John Stuart Mill

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

Marcus Aurelius

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Jacob Needleman

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

Jorge Luis Borges

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Aristotle

Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity.

Aristotle

… what I’m saying is that if we and all the other species on earth are the only life forms in the universe and if there are no gods and let’s face it apart from a few tired scrolls written 300 years after the death of Jesus and his disciples there is no actual proof of a God or gods then we, the humans, who are meant to be at the height of the evolutionary tree, are in fact at the bottom because no other species on this planet is enslaved to the economy. Every other species is born free and lives free. We humans are born into economic slavery and life crippling debt.

In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason’s power completely to articulate it.

If indeed good were a feeling....then it would exist in time. But that is why to call it so is to commit the naturalistic fallacy. It will always remain pertinent to ask, whether the feeling itself is good; and if do, then good cannot itself be identical with any feeling.

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

…if geometry were as much opposed to our passions and present interests as is ethics, we should contest it and violate I but little less, notwithstanding all the demonstrations of Euclid and Archimedes…

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

...moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.

Man cannot bear to be in the wrong. As soon as he feels guilt or remorse, he bends his ethics to suit himself. Actions do not flow from ethics, but ethics from actions, and it is by refining our actions that we refine our ethics.

The ordinary man so very rarely questions the principles in which he has been brought up, that he is usually willing, whenever he has a feeling that he ought to do 'x', to say on this ground that he ought to do 'x'.

R.M. Hare

...our ultimate moral principles can become so completely accepted by us, that we treat them, not as universal imperatives but as matters of fact; they have the same obstinate indubitability.

R.M. Hare

What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. We are creating some of these risks, and discovering how we could respond to these and other risks. If we reduce these risks, and humanity survives the next few centuries, our descendants or successors could end these risks by spreading through this galaxy.Life can be wonderful as well as terrible, and we shall increasingly have the power to make life good. Since human history may be only just beginning, we can expect that future humans, or supra-humans, may achieve some great goods that we cannot now even imagine. In Nietzsche’s words, there has never been such a new dawn and clear horizon, and such an open sea.If we are the only rational beings in the Universe, as some recent evidence suggests, it matters even more whether we shall have descendants or successors during the billions of years in which that would be possible. Some of our successors might live lives and create worlds that, though failing to justify past suffering, would give us all, including some of those who have suffered, reasons to be glad that the Universe exists.

I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to thinking of the other matter it seems less important

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

Aristotle

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

Aristotle

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong t

With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination.

Debasish Mridha

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?

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