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Philosophy Quotes
"Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote."
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"For example, I can doubt that 2 + 2 = 4; however, my doubting does not change the equation. When I test out that formula and find that it is true, then that becomes my reality. How can anything become real until it is tested in the crucible of doubt?"
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"Ideas matter-and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible."
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"The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions."
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"The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality."
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"Nobody has ever been beyond his own Illusion of Life."
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"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."
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"Energy defines life not flesh and blood. WE are infinite energies experiencing infinity. Through a finite aperture."
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"No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head."
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"Don't hope you will receive help from the words of life because they all bring you to death."
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"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."
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"Those who realize their folly are not true fools."
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"Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right."
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"As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution."
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"I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery."
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"The benefits of forgiveness are limitless."
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"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
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"God would never make man in his image,because that would then make him as vain as what man is."
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"What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?"
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"Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all."
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"You may GIVE UP in self-denial but you GIVE"IN in denial of self."
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"Memory is identity. I have believed this since " oh, since I can remember. You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death."
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"And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us of time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing - until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return."
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"What do you want to do with your life, then? is often the question I'm asked.To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference."
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"The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second."
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"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
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"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
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"I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location."
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"Like some of the rest of us, she never reflected how balefully her evil mood might operate; and that all things work for good in the end, will not cover those by whom come the offenses. Another night's rest, it is true, sent the evil mood to sleep again for a time, but did not exorcise it; for there are demons that go not out without prayer, and a bad temper is one of them--a demon as contemptible, mean-spirited, and unjust, as any in the peerage of hell--much petted, nevertheless, and excused, by us poor lunatics who are possessed by him."
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"Above everything else, genuinely love yourself first. Self - love is powerful and it's the best love that you will ever have. When you love who YOU are, your relationships will be healthier and your life will be happier. Self - love sets the standard in how we allow others to treat us and how we treat ourselves. Your happiness and well - being is important. Protect it by always valuing who you are!"
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"Can reason lead us in directions that are good or decent or moral? After all, you pointed out that reason is just a means to an end, and the end depends on the reasoner's passions. Reason can lay out a road map to peace and harmony if the reasoner wants peace and harmony, but it can also lay out a road map to conflict and strife if the reasoner delights in conflict and strife. Can reason force the reasoner to want less cruelty and waste?"
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"Is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?..."
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"Consciousness has power to create physical changes and requires no other medium than itself. It can reach the entire universe, inferring that consciousness energy is the very nature of the universe."
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"We each come to create the reality we believe we deserve."
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"There is no warmness in soul But people spend hours and hours in sunbathe for body.its realize me that we are much worry about body which have to finish one day.but we don't care about soul which have to alive forever."
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"But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary."
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"The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking."
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"What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances."
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"[Christians] are called to distinguish themselves as Christ followers, not community organizers."
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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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"What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt."
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"One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it."
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"We are creatures built on a house of cards of language."
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"I am not here, I am somewhere else, my body is here but mind is in the sky"
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"But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?"
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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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"All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things."
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"Meditate, Ananda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you."
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