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Philosophy Quotes
"In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world."
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"This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny."
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"Blind-believers and staunch atheists have the same god - namely, a self-deluded, one's own shadow's bot."
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"What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them."
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"It is not a case of finding the meaning for the moments, but giving the moments meaning."
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"Surrender to fate and you will never be fully contented."
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"Is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?..."
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"I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another."
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"In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands " there is nothing here for a man but his own mind."
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"When you fill a void, isn't the void still there?"
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"The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular."
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"I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of your spirit is materialism which produces legalism. People scramble for the "perfect law" in order fix everything, while failing to see that law only points towards what is material. And so, people find themselves going around in a circle that will never end. The key is to break away from that circle. You have to begin focusing your attention onto what is inside you and what is inside everybody else. This will in turn produce common sense, intuition, and understanding. Then comes strength."
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"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."
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"I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real " through the Real."
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"The whole humanity together must start working on focusing on reinforcing the elements of love and compassion from Islamic philosophy into the general human psyche."
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"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."
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"I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo know that for destruction iceIs also great."
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"We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone."
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"Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing."
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"Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic."
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"At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost."
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"Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state."
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"To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life."
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"Chance' is just a word expressing ignorance."
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"On a surface level, all one finds is repeated forms of shallow whispers. Having the courage to explore deeply, a wealth of buried infinite lifetimes emerge - an undeniable force."
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"Some of the most healing words in any language are, “I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?” How much more we need that confession to our Father in heaven."
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"Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it. You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth."
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"Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God's holy temple, but I don't think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I've known have been those with physical infirmities."
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"Think like a maverick, Fight like a gladiator, Love with a humble heart and Die for a cause worth dying for... Be a "game changer"....The basic tenets of my life philosophy."
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"When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state."
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"You can have religion but not know Christ. It's having Christ that counts."
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"For to fear death, men, is in fact nothing other than to seem to be wise, but not to be so. For it is to seem to know what one does not know: no one knows whether death does not even happen to be the greatest of all goods for the human being; but people fear it as though they knew well that it is the greatest of evils."
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"The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him."
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"I am not here, I am somewhere else, my body is here but mind is in the skyflying with the clouds, spreading her wings of imagination to find the rainbow of happiness and joy."
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"I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere."
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"I desire the world - therefore I have it."
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"You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge."
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"I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact."
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"There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
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"Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give."
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"There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing."
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"It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories."
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"I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively."
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"Evangelism is not a calling reserved exclusively for the clergy. I believe one of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism."
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"An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day."
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"Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins."
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"Thanksgiving is recognition of a debt that cannot be paid. We express thanks, whether or not we are able otherwise to reimburse the giver."
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