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God is the world's oldest philosopher love is the world's oldest sage.

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

Be prepared to change yourself if you think there is a need to change your environment.

Only if the humans could make a little effort from the bottom of their heart to discard their affinity with religious dogmas, and embrace their inner divinity, the world would become a true peaceful paradise with zero conflicts on the basis of religious orientation.

Only a man of knowledge is capable of giving constructive criticism.

Thinking differently is the key to improvement.

An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.

Whatsoever is outside, know, is Within.

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

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

Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them.

By the time the Truth comes, you'd have been a sure-shot rascal, a long-gone bastard, a life-long sinner, but an ever-humble winner.

The only sin in this world is to lose faith in yourself.

One who knows the Self, knows God.

Strong thoughts are accompanied by great emotions

Thoughts are like things carried by a river. Capture the best while you can, after they have gone, you have to run after them and if per chance you find them, they are distorted

There is hope for you when your opinions are in opposition to those of the majority. Your brain mighty be working as it was meant to.

You are not a real thinker if your thoughts haven't landed you in trouble yet

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.

The god of fools is a fool just like them.

Today religious nuts outnumber monkey nuts in the world.

No construction of thought represents a label, barrier, or a full stop. Each sentence, paragraph, and page represents an exploratory probe into the unknown; each statement is an act of experimentation, investigation, creation, and growth.

May your eyes be the eyes of truthAnd guided from deception

Children are the greatest philosophers : the questions that children ask require the deepest of thoughts and the longest of reflections on life!

At times you have to fight really hard to remember it. Fight within your mind’s dungeons and bring it out alive before it could have been killed and buried forever by the demons living deep down inside your mind’s dungeons.

The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman.

If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr.

You are both the worshipper and the worshipped.

The most time consuming process in the world is probably "thinking".

Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.

Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.

All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India.

The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity.

If someone drowned at sea a couple of hundred years ago they’d either start to decompose immediately or they’d get eaten by fish or other scavengers. The bones would eventually sink down to the seabed and either be slowly buried by marine silt or broken down further over the years, but the flesh would one way or another eventually become water, which would evaporate into clouds and then rain down upon the earth once again to become plants and flowers.The flowers in your garden could once have be

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

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

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

It is easier to be angry. It is easier to hate. It is easier to knock someone down. Those are surface level emotions. It is much harder to be tolerant, to seek wisdom and understand, to stop and evaluate your response even can be pretty challenging. Hate is born of ignorance. We are so distracted that living with any depth is such an oversight as a society. We must learn to love and to stop and think. All of which spending time in meditation with the word of God gives us. But who has time for th

What's in a view? The world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-)

What's in a view? A world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-)

A kite only flies if it’s tethered.

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.

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.

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

What we do with our lives largely depends on the philosophy of life we have subjected our lives to as a way of living life, and which controls, move and directs our lives!

Inner peace comes from a clear conscience.

There comes a point in our lives where light bothers us more than darkness , we get used to bad happening around us than good , happiness makes us more anxious than sadness and at that moment , we don't mind our lives going chaotic as everything seems to be in order .

A living philosophy entails a conscious act of awareness. Without a living philosophy to guide and support us, we are not living as receptive, thinking, and emotionally responsive human beings; we are merely surviving as people.

Those who succumb to pain find weakness in emotion and strength in reason.

Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.

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

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.

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

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

The strictest judges are ignorant people.

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

While reason steers a man, it is faith alone that moves him

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

Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.

Strength and weakness are both mental constructs. Now you choose, what's preferable for you.

An idea occurs in the mind, where it is confined and useless. An idea lives when it leaves the mind.

Inside the human mind, an idea is a mental spark that occurs as a response to the challenge of a train of thought.

Tell us which ideas you promote and we will know which type of person you are.

In the hands of blood-sucking monsters a scripture becomes a weapon that takes away humanism from the heart of humans and fills them with hate, rage and selfishness, whereas, in the hands of modern human beings the same scripture can become the greatest philosophical tool to endow the species with goodness and compassion.

Science explains the how.Philosophy explains the why.Free-thinkers need both.

I am not a teacher of humanity, I am merely servant of humanity.

We scientists perceive it as the Truth that will give us absolute understanding of the universe – which is impossible at the moment for a young species like us. On the other hand, the mystics perceive the Ultimate Truth, to be the attainment of Absolute Divinity, which all the religious giants experienced. But this attainment, is nowhere near the actual Ultimate Truth – it is only a subjective experience of the mind, evoked by specific internal and external stimuli.

Each stage of your lifeis like petals of a flower... unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom...You will blossom and then you die...But know that this is not your ending.

I am merely an insignificant creature on a microscopic blue dot in the vastness of space.

Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows.

Some old and unrealized ideas will undoubtedly be actualized when their time comes.

I am the bridge that connects these two ever- separated banks of human understanding.

The holes in my jeans ans the holes in my boots make me whole!

The holes in my boots and the holes in my jeans make me whole!

Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization.

WE GROW IN SPIRIT WITH EACH LESSONLEARNED THROUGHEXPERIENCE...LET US BE THANKFULNO MATTER HOW PAINFULTHE LESSON!!!

In the hands of thinking humanity, the purpose of the tool of Divinity or Religion is not the service of bookish doctrines, but the realization of the self.

The universe is vast because, it has accepted everything. Every entity is supplement to the other.

The holes in my shoes and the holes in my jeans make me whole!

All definitions are the interpretations of contrasts. What is, helps define what it is not!

People should respect those who have the courage to go alone through life.

Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon.

Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends.

In our most vulnerable hour, it is helpful to remember our creative power.

Even if I told you what scares me, you wouldn't understand how it feels.So just so you know, I've travelled roads I had no idea where they'd take me to.And maybe I don't know much about life and its horrors but trust me, I know enough.And I can fix everything, like I always have.

Living honestly is a prerequisite for a clear conscience.

Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others.

The essence of coexistence is quite simple: live and respect how others live.

The wishes of an honest man do not stretch beyond what he undoubtedly deserves.

A wise man doesn't start what he doesn't know to do.

In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.

Philosophy starts when we question ourselves and search for meaning in our lives.

A writer should feel deeply from his heart of the joys and sorrows of people. And he must write as honestly as possible. Then only can he claim to be a writer.

A thinker builds his castle of thoughts inside a garden of roses and it loses its relevance among the roses. He builds it along the shore and it’s trampled by the fury of waves eventually. He builds it on a cliff high enough and it becomes impregnable but out of reach. Such is the fate of that castle

It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.

Observing is the basis of wisdom.

A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.

Everyone is trying to impress everyone else, trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.