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Philosophy Quotes
"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."
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"From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon."
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"True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed."
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"Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action."
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"Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other."
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"The crying that is done in this world is due to wrong understanding and the laughing is also due to wrong understanding. This world is not worth the crying or laughing. This world is beautiful [which one needs to know and see]."
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"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck."
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"What is heaven? It's the home that God created and He possesses. His throne room is His headquarters from which He issues His commands, directions, and prophecies. And Jesus sits at His Father's right hand."
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"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."
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"Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples."
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"Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others... but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine. It is not a question of God "sending us" to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE hell unless it is nipped in the bud."
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"All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so."
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"I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy."
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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
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"Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about. Your entire life and everything in it is a result of your belief system coupled with your thoughts. The feelings and emotions you have cement this in your mind, and the illusion of all of this combined is what you see as your reality on a moment-to-moment and day-to-day basis."
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"You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation."
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"What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms " in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins."
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"In a decadent society the will to believe, to resist, to contend, to fight, to struggle is gone. In place of this will to resist, there is the desire to conform, to drift, to follow, to yield, and not give up."
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"To generalize is to be an idiot," said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage."
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"The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic."
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"Erotica is pornography I am willing to publicly admit I like."
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"Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity."
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"Just as millions of angels participated in the dazzling show when the morning stars sang together at creation, so will the innumerable hosts of heaven help bring to pass God's prophetic declarations throughout time and into eternity."
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"I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead, is a human one. It would be wonderful and empowering to become free from the disillusionment and nonsense being sold to us from gurus for centuries."
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"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment."
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"The Bible says that as long as we are here on earth, we are strangers in a foreign land. There are enemies to be conquered before we return home. This world is not our home; our citizenship is in heaven."
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"God honored and blessed America as few nations in history. However, in recent years the nation has been moving away from its religious heritage."
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"Bitterness is anger gone sour, an attitude of deep discontent that poisons our souls and destroys our peace."
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"Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science."
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"Just for a second, think, how mysteriously vast the universe is! And you the humans exist only in a tiny fraction of that vastness. You'd realize how insignificant you are if you compare yourself with the vastness of the universe. Your universe is everything that is out there. Your little 3 pound brain has access to only a microscopic percentage of that unfathomable everything. You childishly boast your greatness as a so-called advanced species while you only see a very small strip of what's really going on in the universe."
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"All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night."
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"We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself."
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"I can hear the songs of your eyes, I can feel the warmth of your glowing cheek, and I can get lost in the smile of your soul."
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"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
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"No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!"
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"Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world."
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"If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction."
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"You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch."
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"Righteousness is easy in retrospect."
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"Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities."
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"I must ask myself, “Billy Graham, are you prepared to meet the Master at any moment?” Yes, I am-but not because I have preached or tried to help people, but solely because I am trusting Christ as my Lord and Savior. Stop right now and ask yourself that question."
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"Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look."
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"Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it."
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"But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted."
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"Random violence is incredibly infectious."
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"Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!"
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"One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired."
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"The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that."
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"It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong."
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