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Philosophy Quotes
"The things you don't know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery."
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"By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands."
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"It can be stolen, but never bought.It can be given, but never taken.It can be stepped on, but cannot walk .It can fly, but has no wings.It can sing, but has no voice.It can be broken, but still it work s.It can be left, even while it follows.And though it's easily commanded, it can never, ever be demanded."
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"Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun."
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"Why shouldn't we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word “obscenity.” If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick."
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"However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747."
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"The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life.Now, with the new feeling that had ripened in him, he became aware of another law: that we are given only one conscience, too.A life laid down cannot be reclaimed, nor can a ruined conscience."
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"Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them."
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"Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely."
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"Worldview is often confused with perception; rather, it is our perception that influences our worldview."
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"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."
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"Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing."
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"Personally, I'm a lazy kind of guy, and leaving the door open on the mystical saves me work. I don't have to stress my brain trying to explain the unexplainable. It's magic. End of discussion."
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"When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well."
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"Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones."
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"No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to."
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"Your inner understanding of Love - can be extended beyond all you have ever known, before."
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"Where she ended, he began."
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"As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves."
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"She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious."
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"We're shadows! of naught - living, dying! for what's not."
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"We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship."
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"Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally."
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"What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, even to risk a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me up there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made simply to go about being safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. Against his interest, against his happiness he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him and go he must."
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"Unless you are free from your own mind, you can never truly experience the freedom with life."
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"The more you remain aware with all the internal and external changes of life, more you allow yourself to move deeper towards the source."
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"Man is now a new animal, a new and different animal; he can jump a hundred miles, see through brick walls, bombard atoms, analyse the stars, set about his business with the strength of a million horses. And so forth and so on. Yes. Yes. But all the same he goes on behaving like the weak little needy ape he used to be. He grabs, snarls, quarrels, fears, stampedes, and plays in his immense powder magazine until he seems likely to blow up the whole damned show."
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"Unless you realize yourself beyond the identity of the mind, you cannot become free from life."
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"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."
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"Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results."
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"He finally had a reason to live, just in time to die."
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"The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious."
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"I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved as he was solely by the desire for truth, and by the suspicion - which I could see he always harbored - that the truth was not what was appearing to him at any given moment."
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"Truth in, untruth out. Seek thus, within-without."
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"You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension."
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"Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service."
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"Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything."
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"I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one."
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"It was in the horizon of existence, that the Big Bang must have created our souls, we loved each other like the plane of time doesn't hold a fleck of control over us."
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"The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it."
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"I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension."
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"I generally don't become overexcited about things anyway, I'm just not one of those people.I'm not easily surprised by things either. I think it's because I expect that anything can happen. That makes me sound like a believer and I'm not necessarily that either. I'll phrase it better: I just accept things that happen. All things."
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"Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms."
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"Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak."
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"Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!"
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"Know that it is your birthright to awaken. Seeking Truth is the ultimate quest of every moral citizen. Truth is felt first in the heart, and then the mind. The voice of your conscience comes from your heart, not your mind. The voice of reason comes from your mind, not your heart. Your mind is simply there to reason with your heart. Always listen to your heart first. Those who look for Truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth. When you come close to Truth, the first sign will be an inner sense of liberation. Truth will NEVER imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'."
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"Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence."
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