Philosophy Quotes - Page 6

Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore.

Gregory Maguire

I, on the other hand, am very concerned about how word choice will affect my readers. For instance, in the description of Genesis, I chose the term 'good and evil' instead of 'right and wrong', which are basically two same terms. I wanted to use 'right and wrong' because it definitely will ignite more controversies than 'good and evil', but I chose to use the latter because I was afraid of the social influence that can come from reading my book, and although there is no adult material at all in the book, I could risk getting my book banned.

Andreas Laurencius

The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.

Debasish Mridha

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

Debasish Mridha

The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.

Debasish Mridha

A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love.

John Paul II

To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.

Debasish Mridha

Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them.

Eraldo Banovac

If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold.

Anna Freeman

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment. Different schools of thought over the centuries have found different explanation for man's apparently inherently flawed state. Taoists call it imbalance, Buddism calls it ignorance, Islam blames our misery on rebellion against God, and the Judeo-Christian tradition attributes all our suffering to original sin. Freudians say that unhappiness is the inevitable result of the clash between our natural drives and civilization's needs. (As my friend Deborah the psychologist explains it: "Desire is the design flaw.") The Yogis, however, say that human discontentment is a simple case of mistaken identity. We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme Self who is eternally at peace. That supreme Self is our true identity, universal and divine. Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: "You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to make myself matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

John Green

If life gets you down.Just try digging a deeper hole.

Anthony T.Hincks

A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.

Eraldo Banovac

You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!

Ambrose Bierce

I swear to you the architects shall appear without fall, I swear to you they will understand you and justify you, The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all, He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they, You shall be fully glorified in them.

Walt Whitman

Every moment is important, like the moment that takes away your life.

Debasish Mridha

A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting...

Stuti Dhyani

A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

Debasish Mridha

I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.

Stephen J. Day

If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their errors will eventually be discovered. But even if the majority view is correct, as it often may be, it is more likely to be seen to be correct if it must defend itself against critics.

Angus J.L. Menuge

A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

Debasish Mridha

Stress is nothing but the fear of change.

Debasish Mridha

When we don’t fear change, stress disappears. When we accept change, fear disappears.

Debasish Mridha

Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place.

Benny Bellamacina

Steve's throat swelled with tension as the intimacy of the moment became more tangible. He moved his eyes from the dark, reflective river, to the dark, reflective pupils in Diane's eyes. They seemed to quiver with tenderness - but then they would grow distant. He found himself continually surprised at the "aliveness" of the person standing just a foot away from him now. She wasn't inanimate: she would flinch if he pinched her, and answer if he asked her. And she was beautiful." -- From "The Grand Unified Story" -- a short story in Zack Love's Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

Zack Love

If, however, we pursue what is expressed in the phrase 'the language of things', we are pointed in a similar direction. The language of things too is something to which we should pay better attention. This expression also has a kind of polemical accent. It expresses the fact that, in general, we are not at all ready to hear things in there own being, that they are subjected to man's calculus and to his domination of nature through the rationality of science.

GADAMER

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy

Red's had her day. It's time to give pink a go.

Anthony T.Hincks

...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

Paul Tillich

Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.

D.E. Navarro

Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked they do not evaporate and leave the mind to its serener musings. Once asked they gain dimension and texture, trip you on the stairs, wake you at night-time. A black hole sucks up its surroundings and even light never escapes. Better then to ask no questions? Better then to be a contented pig than an unhappy Socrates? Since factory farming is tougher on pigs than it is on philosophers I'll take a chance.

Jeanette Winterson

How can you find answers, if you do not ask questions?

Lailah Gifty Akita

Dear Waves,You have been restless all your life? Or maybe uneasy? I don't know quite. Oscillating between faiths, swinging between shores!Yet when we sit next to you on those sands, do you never feel like sharing what bothers you so much?

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

My favorite passage from the book: "Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don't ever want to be again. Everything we do is part of who we are. How we choose to use those memories, to motivate or to submit is entirely up to us.

Shane Niemeyer The Hurt Artist

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Bertrand Russell

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Karl Marx

You must dream big and dream often. Take risks and see what happens.

Debasish Mridha

Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.

Robert M. Pirsig

Don’t care about day to day things, don’t care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

Debasish Mridha

If you do not manage things, be prepared to face the consequences.

Eraldo Banovac

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

Debasish Mridha

Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough.

Debasish Mridha

The water never stops, never gives up, and denies no faults in the path it takes,” he explained, my eyes still focused down the ravine, “It moves silently, only a mere trickle to entertain itself as it causes a massive gash in the world. This, Zack, is true power.

Daniel "Z" Hastings

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

René Magritte

The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.

Haruki Murakami

Philosophy is a bitter medicine with many fearsome side effects, but if you are able to stomach it, it can cure your soul of the many ills and infirmities of ignorance. Given the choice, most men prefer not to take it, and many of those who do soon find that they cannot carry on with it. In the end, they choose what is more pleasant over what is more wholesome, and prefer the society of those who encourage them in their follies to that of those who admonish and improve them. You, on the other hand, appear to be minded otherwise, for when a young men sets for himself the highest standards of education and conduct, he naturally shuns the company of mindless nobodies and boldly seeks out that of the singular men who are prepared to teach him and challenge him and exhort him to virtue. In time, by his strivings, he will come to realize that it is from the hardest toil and noblest deeds that the purest and most persisting pleasures are to be had, and, taking pity on other men, and thinking also of the gods, he will do everything in his power to share this precious secret.

Neel Burton

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.Awe is what moves us forward.

Joseph Campbell

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

Joseph Campbell

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

Joseph Campbell

Awe is what moves us forward.

Joseph Campbell

Love is like a season,it ebbs and it flows,sometimes we're like Summer, Fall and Winter,but it's Spring that I long to know.

Anthony T.Hincks

Intelligence is naked without wisdom. Wisdom dresses interestingly with intelligence.

Santosh Kalwar

Mummy became a shadow, a woman who had lost herself because she had never found herself. She had always done the right thing, and I had a feeling that the right thing is always going to be the wrong thing, that you find yourself by stepping out of yourself.

Chloe Thurlow

Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves.

Debasish Mridha

I talk to myself, not because I'm lonely, but because sometimes I'm the only one who understands what I'm saying.

Anthony T.Hincks

Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!

Felix Alba-Juez

One of the various theories proposed to explain the negative result of the famous Michelson-Morley experiment with light waves (conceived to measure the absolute space), was based on the ballistic hypothesis, i.e. on postulating that the speed of light predicted by Maxwell's equations was not given as relative to the medium but as relative to the transmitter (firearm). Had that been the case, the experiment negative results would have not caused such perplexity and frustration (as we shall see in forthcoming sections).

Felix Alba-Juez

It is worth noting that a wrong folkoric definition of an Inertial Frame in the Popular Science literature (even in text books) reads that 'it is a frame in uniform motion'. We know very well by now that the idea of motion requires a frame of reference, so that such a definition of an Inertial Frame has no meaning whatsoever, confusing the reader because it tacitly reaffirms the idea of absolute motion -- when the goal of every didactic exposition of Relativity Theory should be precisely the opposite.

Felix Alba-Juez

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete.

John Myhill

Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.

Proclus

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