Philosophy Quotes - Page 33

...our great modern error is the belief that we must invariably give up one thing in order to have another. But it is possible, for instance, to find comfort, pleasure, and beauty in food, clothing, and shelter. It is possible to find pleasure and beauty and even "recreation" in work. It is possible to have farms that do not waste and poison the natural world.

Wendell Berry

What sort of charge against old age is the nearness of death, when this is shared by youth?Yes, you will say; but a young man expects to live long; an old man cannot expect to do so.Well, the young man is a fool to expect it. For what can be more foolish than to regard the uncertain as certain, the false as true? An old man has nothing even to hope. ' Ah, but it is just there that he is in a better position than the young man, since what the latter only hopes he has obtained:The one wishes to live long; the other has lived long.And yet! what is 'long' in a man's life? For grant the utmost limit: let us expect an age like that of the king of the Tartessi, who reigned eighty years and lived a hundred and twenty.Nothing seems long in which there is any . last' , for when that arrives, then all the past has slipped away -only that remains which you have earned by virtue and righteous actions.Hours indeed, and days and months and years depart, nor does past time ever return, nor can the future be known.Whatever time each is granted for life, with that he is bound to be content.

A.C. Grayling

A person shattered by their loss in faith must come to terms with the underlying fear and tension of his or her austere solitude and knowingly accept that the universe is utterly indifferent to a person’s survival. Establishment of an ethical code – a philosophical stance – that enables a person to accept the absurdity of living in a world indifferent to them is the ultimate challenge.

Kilroy J. Oldster

A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.

Ashtavakra Gita

Desire and anger are objects of the mind, but the mind is not yours, nor ever has been. You are choiceless, awareness itself and unchanging - so live happily.

Ashtavakra Gita

You may recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be established within until you can forget everything.

Ashtavakra Gita

There’s no reason to cry over spilled milk. People cannot change the things that have already happened.

Eraldo Banovac

The strictest judges are ignorant people.

Eraldo Banovac

Time runs independently of us, and we cannot comprehend the flow of time. Time is a category in itself.

Eraldo Banovac

Sometimes, to avoid obstacles, you must also avoid appellation.

Andy Harglesis

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

Herman Melville

A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.

Eraldo Banovac

Tedium and boredom are related, but not identical. Tedium comes from a person lacking an ideology to live by; the dulling fear fomented in the soul after confronting the paucity of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.

Eraldo Banovac

There wouldn't be life without colour.

Anthony T.Hincks

An effort disbursed to become like a god takes us closer towards finding him.

Deepak Vidyarthi

Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.

Eraldo Banovac

In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.

Eraldo Banovac

The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.

Eraldo Banovac

Sages thought and taught,But men do what they want;Love, wisdom and tolerance won’t work at them,For they are great beasts of all.

Vinod Varghese Antony

Look at this leaf. When you’re standing close to it you can see every single detail of the leaf. You may think that it’s important to see things, like this leaf, up close but that is an incorrect notion because it is also important to view things from afar. That’s why it is necessary to look at all perspectives of an issue or of an object. --The Unnamed Samurai (Chapter 5)

Melissa Rose Lawrence

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

Adi Shankaracarya

There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of." Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath

P.A. Speers

Everything is transient. You must transcend and transform for higher self realization.

Debasish Mridha

Success is never a place or position but a new state of self-realization.

Debasish Mridha

Confidence is the greatest success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. Why might this be interesting, or even inspiring? Perhaps because unhappiness can stem from only having one perspective to play with.

Alain de Botton

In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the plate and took action to help a crippled population. All credit for the establishment of their wonderful, life-saving group goes to them and to those who came after them who have continued the tradition. However, there are hundreds of millions of people who still need help who are not among the estimated two or three million who attend twelve-step meetings.

Chris Prentiss

Moon is a shining ball,from the window on my wall.Moon is blemish-laden,from the terrace of my mansion.Moon is a cold flame,from the porthole of my airplane.Yet I have heard,Moon is muse to philosophy brothers,Moon is nurse to romantic lovers.How can it be so various?Are we not the same?Or did the Moon really change?

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

Chris Prentiss

What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you.

Chris Prentiss

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

Rebecca Goldstein

If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the forest bordering on the sand dune, there will be a moment when these details suddenly become part of the ship, and indissolubly fused with it. As I approached, I did not perceive resemblances or proximities which ﬁnally came together to form a continuous picture of the upper part of the ship. I merely felt that the look of the object was on the point of altering, that something was imminent in this tension, as a storm is imminent in storm clouds.Suddenly the sight before me was recast in a manner satisfying to my vague expectation. Only afterwards did I recognize, as justiﬁcations for the change, the resemblance and contiguity of what I call ‘stimuli’— namely the most determinate phenomena, seen at close quarters and with which I compose the ‘true’ world. ‘How could I have failed to see that these pieces of wood were an integral part of the ship? For they were of the same colour as the ship, and ﬁtted well enough into its superstructure.’ But these reasons for correct perception were not given as reasons beforehand. The unity of the object is based on the foreshadowing of an imminent order which is about to spring upon us a reply to questions merely latent in the landscape. It solves a problem set only in the form of a vague feeling of uneasiness, it organizes elements which up to that moment did not belong to the same universe and which, for that reason, as Kant said with profound insight, could not be associated. By placing them on the same footing, that of the unique object, synopsis makes continuity and resemblance between them possible. An impression can never by itself be associated with another impression.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The philosopher often appears ridiculous in the practical affairs of life, because he or she has stepped out of the rush of time.

Theaetetus

Success is never a place but a perspective.

Debasish Mridha

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved... or if that phrase is a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling..

Oscar Wilde

To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.

Robert M. Pirsig

Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is. And when you presume there’s just one right way to do things, of course the instructions begin and end exclusively with the rotisserie. But if you have to choose among an infinite number of ways to put it together then the relation of the machine to you, and the relation of the machine and you to the rest of the world, has to be considered, because the selection from many choices, the art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. That’s why you need the peace of mind.

Robert M. Pirsig

You may never understand us, so it's natural you don't give a good manner towards us. It's logical.

Kushiro Shoko

One physician may gravely exaggerate an illness and give up hope altogether. Another may ignorantly declare that there is no illness and that no treatment is necessary, thus deceiving the patient with false consolation. You may call the first one pessimistic and the second one optimistic. Both are equally dangerous.

Walpola Rahula

The way to get started is to take the first step with dream-powered optimism.

Debasish Mridha

Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.

Debasish Mridha

When you suspect old age is catching up with you, live faster!

Benny Bellamacina

While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.

Richard Kearney

In life, as in knitting, don't leave loose ends. Take the time to thank the people who matter in your life.

Reba Linker

Make enthusiasm a way of life.Make optimism a way of success.Make gratitude a way of happiness.

Debasish Mridha

Give thanks to the earth for the hospitality and generosityShow gratitude for life, light and every little beauty.

Debasish Mridha

An appreciating heart radiates happinessGratitude fills your life with bliss and joyfulness.

Debasish Mridha

Gratitude is the key for the door of abundance.

Debasish Mridha

Gratitude opens a clenched fist and a closed heart.

Debasish Mridha

Gratitude for all the beauty and blessings that we already enjoy fills our lives with abundance.

Debasish Mridha

Gratitude is the payment for what we have received. It also opens our hearts to fill our lives with abundance.

Debasish Mridha

For success, positive attitude and gratitude is more important that ability.

Debasish Mridha

Let us express our gratitude to those people who make our journeys in life beautiful, easy, and interesting. They are the angels of Eden whom we often forget to appreciate.

Debasish Mridha

Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so. Passions, III, 193. XI, 473-474. Trans. John Morris

René Descartes

Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Marcus Aurelius

Were a million people to believe in bullshit, it yet is just bull crap.

Fakeer Ishavardas

Your body may not be, but the quintessence your being and entity is made-up of, is forever.

Fakeer Ishavardas

All personal god, yours or mine, are false. Unto existence nothing but an infinite oneness walks.

Fakeer Ishavardas

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