Top 23 The Perennial Philosophy Quotes
#1. Some of these rich folks seem to think that everything belongs to them and they'll even get to take it with them when they die. But you know what? You don't ever see a hearse pulling a U Haul.
Jim Hightower
#2. To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
Gore Vidal
#3. What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.
David Sedaris
#4. I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home.
Tyler Oakley
#5. Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.
Frithjof Schuon
#6. Meditation, then, is not so much a part of this or that particular religion, but rather part of the universal spiritual culture of all humankind
an effort to bring awareness to bear on all aspects of life. It is, in other words, part of what has been called the perennial philosophy.
Ken Wilber
#7. The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the lowest, densest, and most fragmentary realms to the highest, subtlest, and most unitary ones.
Ken Wilber
#8. The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
Publilius Syrus
#9. My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.
Jennie Garth
#10. I laid a hand on his cheek; it was so bright that for a second I thought it was burning me, a pure painless fire.
Tana French
#11. I'm sorry, Lord Rahl, but I don't think you are the kind of man who would want me to tell you anything other than the truth." Richard stared into Samantha's dark eyes. "No, I wouldn't. Only the truth can help us.
Terry Goodkind
#13. Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
Paul Tillich
#14. When I perform, I like to wear funky flats, leather boots or knee-high Converse with bright laces. Then I can dance and not worry about falling.
China Anne McClain
#15. She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
#16. I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.
John Legend
#17. The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.
Frithjof Schuon
#18. An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.
Mark Van Doren
#19. I'm sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.
Warsan Shire
#20. Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
Aldous Huxley
#21. I think waking up in the middle of the night and seeing stuff in the dark and thinking it is something scary or demonic. When you first wake up and you see things and you're eyes aren't open and things aren't what they seem. That happened to me like three weeks ago!
Daniel Jacobs
#22. The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
Aldous Huxley
#23. Puberty," it has been said, "is everyone's first experience of a sentient madness.
Stacy Schiff
