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Philosophy Quotes
"Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
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"No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win."
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"The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation."
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"Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time."
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"It is a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes...For we are all so busy, and have so many far-off projects to realise, and castles in the fire to turn into solid habitable mansions on a gravel soil, that we can find no time for pleasure trips into the Land of Thought and among the Hills of Vanity."
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"Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith."
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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 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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"The subject of heaven is much easier to accept than the subject of hell. And yet the Bible teaches both."
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"When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has."
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"I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists."
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"I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study."
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"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
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"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
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"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
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"Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill."
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"Grief turns us inward, but compassion turns us outward, and that's what we need when grief threatens to crush us. The Bible says, “Carry each other's burdens” [Galatians 6:2 NIV]."
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"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes)."
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"Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it."
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"The deepest need of man, then, is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness. The absolute failure to achieve this aim means insanity, because the panic of complete isolation can be overcome only by such a radical withdrawal from the world outside that the feeling of separation disappears-because the world outside, from which one is separated, has disappeared."
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"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
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"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."
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"I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end."
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"Camus said there is only really one serious philosophical question, which is whether or not to commit suicide. I think there are four or five serious philosophical questions:The first one is: Who started it?The second is: Are we going to make it?The third is: Where are we going to put it?The fourth is: Who's going to clean up?And the fifth: Is it serious?Out Of Your Mind (2004), Audio lecture 1: The Nature of Consciousness: A Game That's Worth The Candle."
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"While separation does not mean disengagement from the world, there are certain activities and places that God clearly wants us to avoid not only to protect ourselves from spiritual harm but so that the witness we have will not be tarnished."
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"You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound."
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"Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. There upon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else."
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"It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest."
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"Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces."
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"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
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"Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return."
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"It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet."
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"Better a false belief than no belief at all."
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"Do not have so much fear of this world that it will ruin the next incarnation."
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"We are called to obey Christ. He is the Master of our lives and has washed us in His blood, which cleanses our souls, our minds, and our mouths. The world is watching. What do they see and hear?"
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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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"Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future."
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"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
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"Words have an immeasurable impact, they can either build or destroy so be careful of your words."
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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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"All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain."
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"That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered."
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"Perfection exists no where, because we all live in fragments - mental, psychological, physical, spiritual. Being total is an art which takes many lives to master!"
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"Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms."
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"The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself."
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"Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like."
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"The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful, the best occupations are the least forced."
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"The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious."
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