Quotes about philosophical

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

Flame is the lamp rest is borrowed.

As I opened my eyes and witnessed the whites my world transformed and I looked at everything in a different light!

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us we are it's victim and we have no control over it.

Society says that to free a man from his demons you have to lock him in a cage I say to lock his demons in a cage you have to free the man from society.

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

Only gravity can hold me down only myself can hold me back.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey

In the life of mathematics two plus two makes four but in the mathematics of life two and two can make five or even three sometimes

Crows pooping in your neighbor's roof is not good news one day they will be pooping in your roof too

When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others if that doesn't happen there is nothing wrong with God's finger there is something wrong with your heart

Any connection with nature and most connections with technology are lost. There's a belief that nature is irrelevant and that anything can be solved using the current methods--now technology previously magic or praying.

Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.”{Source: A Green Desert Father}

He that will not reason is a bigot he that cannot reason is a fool he that dares not reason is a slave.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right no one can be always right.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Listen." Jennifer reverted, "I didn't mean anything by all of that before. I understand what you were trying to do and ..." She struggled for the right words. "Sweetie, like love, people don't live inside of life, life lives inside of you. Open yourself up to it and there's no stopping your heart.

Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice…It demands that he starts, not with a standard of value, but with a standard of evil, which is himself, by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not. A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an isolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality. If man is

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.His own happiness is man’s only moral purpose, but only his own virtue can achieve it…Life is the reward of virtue- and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy- a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your won destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.

Time is the Mind of Space.

If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change

The only thing standing between you and your dreams is ... reluctance.

I don't reckon misery loves any damn thing at all.

... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας.

Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.

If a stone hits a river, the river will treat it as yet another commotion in its already tumultuous course. Nothing unusual. Nothing unmanageable. If a stone hits a lake, however, the lake will never be the same again.

The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs!

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world...Religious suffering is, at

Life doesn't revolve around youIt revolves around those you love

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

A lizard brain fired the gun that wounded you, but it was the combination of three brains that orchestrated the elaborate circumstances in which the trigger was pulled. Way back when, the Landlord believed a second brain would endow some of his lower life forms with the capacity for emotional connections. By adding the third brain, he probably planned on having his... higher forms empowered with the ability to not only think before acting, but to feel regret afterwards when their actions were wr

... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

‎"We live in a world where those things that we never imagine could ever do something, did the best.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.

Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algún día. (...) Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir. Por eso nosotros, para evolucionar necesitamos la muerte.

We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and intention of their lives. What do they demand of life and wish to achieve in it? The answer to this can hardly be in doubt. They strive for happiness; they want to become happy and to remain so. This endeavor has two sides, a positive and a negative aim. It aims, on the one hand, at an absence of pain and unpleasure, and, on the other, at the experiencing of strong feelings o

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what.", The Guardian, 5 June 2005]

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,they are vexations to the spirit.

Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

Make a liberty without the instinctive duress.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Walk in the light while you have the light.

There is divinity within every soul.

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

I: GOD, I seem to have an undefined connection with nature. At times, it’s more than what I see and at other times more than what I hear. What am I missing Dear GOD?GOD:Son, seek inspiration from nature. Seek answers from nature. For nature represents me in all my glory.Allow the rainbow to paint you with hope and joy.Allow the roar of the waves to light up your passion.Allow the flowers to make your soul fragrant.Allow the mountains to teach to be lofty.Allow the valleys to teach you to be humb

Enjoy this moment. The ultimate fulfilment of the dream will not come close to the dream. Enjoy it

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.

Milk is the only juice in a world of cows.

...he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu.

Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life.

In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed.

Every dream is the beginning of a new life in your thoughts..

But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning.

Spirit does not belong to any particular religion because It has nothing to do with any religion and humanity cannot claim any exclusivity to It because we and our planet is nothing but a drop in the ocean of this endless Universe.

When the loneliest place on earth is in your mind, move out!

Our Universe is a multidimensional one; every individual life unit consciously functions in a particular vibratory level (dimension or density) but unconsciously/ subconsciously functions in and through all the other levels, and as the awareness increases it moves to the conscious existence of the next immediate level.

When you can't think clearly, climb to the top of your thoughts

Not every leader is a philosopher, but each leader should cultivate a philosophical mindset.

You can be RELIGIOUS without being SPIRITUAL or You can be SPIRITUAL without being RELIGIOUS or Both It all depends on your Philosophy.

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.

In every journey comes a moment... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are... and who you want to be.

Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and justice is the spirit of God.

Somewhere in this world there exists an exceptional philosopher named Florie Rotondo.The other day I came across one of her ruminations printed in a magazine devoted to the writings of schoolchildren. It said: “If I could do anything, I would go to the middle of our planet, Earth, and seek uranium, rubies, and gold. I'd look for Unspoiled Monsters. Then I'd move to the country. --Florie Rotondo, age 8.”Florie, honey, I know just what you mean – even if you don’t: how could you, age eight?

Sometimes the burden of love is heavier than a heavy heart

Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst;

Philosophy has forgotten about children

If you’re given a dirty look, wash it and give it back.

Life, wherever it leads,Will always be the same,It begs for the best of you.

It’s not really outstanding when you’re standing outOutcry is the only outburst,if you can’t shout

This is no tall story. Nor is it a short story. Indeed, a story cannot be measured, for their realities stretch far beyond a page or one person’s life.