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Philosophy Quotes
"One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole " there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole, But nothing exists apart from the whole!"
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"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."
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"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
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"Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together."
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"As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us."
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"Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all."
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"The key point about life is that in the end nothing really matters."
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"It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path."
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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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"Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending."
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"Better a false belief than no belief at all."
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"Prayer by itself is like a diet without protein! Prayer is important to our spiritual growth- but of even greater importance is God's Word, the Bible."
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"For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie.The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages."
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"The world may argue against a creed, but it cannot argue against changed lives."
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"If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections."
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"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
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"It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself."
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"Your perception about the world creates your thoughts, your thoughts create your desires and intention, and your intentions manifest as your reality."
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"Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day."
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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'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like."
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"It's amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us . . .subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa."
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"We do not have a paradise on earth, it is riddled with so much sin and disease."
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"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
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"She wanted to say, I am made of smoke. My mind is smoke, my thoughts are smoke, I am all smoke and only smoke. This body is a garment I put on, which by my magic art I have made capable of functioning as a human body functions, it's so biologically perfect that it can conceive children and pop them out in threes, fours and fives. Yet I am not of this body and could, if I chose, inhabit another woman, or an antelope, or a gnat. Aristotle was wrong, for I have lived for aeons, and altered by body when I chose, like a garment of which I had grown tired. The mind and the body are two, she wanted to say, but she knew it would disappoint him to be disagreed with, so she held her tongue."
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"Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand."
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"My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things."
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"There is always time to die, but never time to live."
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"Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!"
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"How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do."
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"Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity."
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"Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?..."
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"Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it."
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"Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn."
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"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
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"I believe in angels because the Bible says there are angels, and I believe the Bible to be the true Word of God."
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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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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions, they cease to be mind."
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"Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.There is one who remembers the way to your door:Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.You shall not deny the Stranger.They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be."
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"I am someone who represents a very complex country which insists on being simple-minded. And simplicity, it occurs to me, it has occurred to me more than once, in my somewhat stormy life, simplicity is taken to be a great American virtue, along with sincerity. And the result of this is, if you are simple-minded enough, you can become-I didn't want to go that far laughs. And as long as you're sincere in what you say, you haven't got to know what you're talking about. These are the American virtues-two of them anyway. One of the results of this is that immaturity is taken to be a virtue too."
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"A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world."
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"In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as "an optical illusion of consciousness."
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"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
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"All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain."
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"The present is a transitory existence which is made in order to be abolished: it retrieves itself only by transcending itself toward the permanence of future being; it is only as an instrument, as a means, it is only by it's efficacy with regard to the coming of the future that the present is validly realized: reduced to itself it is nothing , one may dispose of it as he pleases."
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