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Philosophy Quotes
"In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism."
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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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"A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?"
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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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"Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other."
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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
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"Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways cannot be known, oh man." Which is to say, "My ways do not make sense, nor do the ways of those who dwell in me."
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"At night all cats are grey."
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"So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe--all its matter and forms of energy--arise out of thought."
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"It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.""And memory.""Yes, memory. Without that, time would be unarmed against us."
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"There is no God and we are his prophets."
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"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
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"Surrender to fate and you will never be fully contented."
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"Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
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"A good life fears not life nor death."
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"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
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"There should be a purpose and meaning given to life."
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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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"Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there."
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"Maybe what you need in your life is not the next level of accomplishment or the next level of accumulation but the next level of appreciation for what you have; that will set the stage to make a space for what you will accumulate in the future. ( a bit deep) Simply put thank God for now before setting the goal for tomorrow because if you grow in gifts and didn't grow in gratitude, you have gained nothing."
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"Indeed the mind of IlAovatar concerning you is not known to the Valar, and he has not revealed all things that are to come. But this we hold to be true, that your home is not here, neither in the land of Aman nor anywhere within the Circles of the World. And the Doom of Men, that they should depart, was at first a gift of IlAovatar. It became a grief to them only because coming under the shadow of Morgoth it seemed to them that they were surrounded by a great darkness, of which they grew afraid; and some grew wilful and proud and would not yield, until life was reft from them."
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"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it."
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"Memorizing the Bible is most important. “Thinking God's thoughts” will take the place of worried, anxious concerns."
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"Every person is an island in the sea of humanity."
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"Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life. In this life there are many forms of hell that people walk through, sometimes for a day, sometimes for years, sometimes it doesn't end. The kind of hell that doesn't burn your skin; but burns your soul. The kind of hell that people can't see; but the flames lap at your spirit. Heaven is a place on earth, too! It's where you feel freedom, where you're not afraid. No more chains. And you hear your soul laughing."
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"Little is the imagination of the person who believes that the future of another may be determined by his/her past. We are so much more than our minds and our memories! We are in fact transcendent souls. If you determine what is ahead by what you can see when you look back, then you will in fact never behold what actually stands in front of you."
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"Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state."
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"To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life."
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"When you get down to it, though, explaining what you believe isn't all that easy. If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things-that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact. I don't logically see how one single word can have contradictory definitions, but emotionally, I completely understand. Because there are times I think what I am doing is right, and there are other times I second-guess myself every step of the way."
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"She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself."
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"Do not have so much fear of this world that it will ruin the next incarnation."
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"The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud."
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"The ability to rejoice in any situation is a sign of spiritual maturity."
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"What once were vices are now manners."
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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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"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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"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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"Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What was right, and what was wrong? Just learning how to dress was a riddle."
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"What good is power when you're too wise to use it?"
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"One is free, and at the mercy of everything."
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"Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give."
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"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."
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"We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation."
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"To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it."
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"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
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"In greatness, life and death merge."
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"All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so."
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