Quotes about philosophical-musings

Some people build houses others build people of the two I would rather be of the latter

The most formidable thing standing between your dreams and you is you

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work it is what I do.

The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance just tolerance.

Lies are living beings once they get hold of you they never let go

Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

D'you know, Georgie," he said, settling back comfortably in the deep grass, that there song you've been a-singin' at all day - it ain't much of a song and it ain't much of a tune, but there's real good *sense* to it, though you probably don't know it. And I'll tell you why - because there always *is* new Folks comin', that's why. There's always new Folks comin' and always new times comin'.

Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.

Learn to accept life in toto. A perfect life is only in the dream world. This, my dear, with all it's heartaches, is it. Our world.

If you're still living, you are yet! winning.

The older we get, the more we become ourselves.

The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.

The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it's content can perpetually change with your perception.

If you lived a good life, you either lived to save or died to save… that which must be saved and kept. Your life would never be meaningless. Not even for a moment.

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

We may be pilgrims passing through this world, but let's not be grim-pills in the process!

May your eyes be the eyes of truthAnd guided from deception

The people who strive for failure are encouraged by those that failed before them. To do the same

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

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

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

I blame God for all the good things that happened in my life to spite him I will be good to others

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]

Sometimes the answer is in the question.

Life is too short to bullshit.

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.

They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?

For the philosopher, language, thought, and passion are the same. Ideas are personal to a philosopher; they express their human passion and articulate their novel ideas in language. Ideas are more than mere concepts, trifles that the philosophical mind toys with. Ideas provide both the structure and inner vitality that holds great thinkers’ conceptual structure together.

Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.

Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.

I have begun to wonder where I came from. The person I am now, this fumbling, stumbling supplicant... was I built on the foundations of my old life, or did I rise from the grave a blank state? How much of me is inherited, and how much is my own creation? Questions that were once just idle musings have begun to feel strangely urgent. Am I firmly rooted to what came before? Or can I choose to deviate?

Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.

Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.

Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.

If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.

But that is the way of life, and that was but one of the first times, among no few to come, that I was taught a useful lesson about how appearances trump truth, and how villains hide their vices behind masks of piety, honour, and decency. And that to denounce evildoers without proof, attack them with weapons, trust blindly in reason or justice, is often the fastest road toward one's own perdition, while the scoundrels who use influence or money as a shield remained untouched.

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.

Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.

Ambition soars and also slithers

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence -rassool jibraeel snyman

Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life.

Your greatest adventure is written inside of you

No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself

Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools

i closed my eyes and i loved you ... dreams are such beautiful things

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world

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

Only that 'holy' book which teaches you to love all beings - animals or human things - read. Another one, idiots do, You let go, God speed.

Truth respects no ism.

A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the responsibilities that come naturally about when deeply immersed in family and community affairs. Directing their attention outward, assisting other people in their troubled times, while denying themselves the indulgence of self-absorption frees a person’s bidding mind from a jumble of discordant thoughts, wants, and unholy bequests.

If you don’t know history,you don’t know anything.”Edward Johnston

A journey inward may end in defeatFor life as we know it was made by machines

But what's in a name? We have named all of the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have names of their own. What a nerve!

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?