Top 100 The Philosophy Quotes
#1. Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#2. There is something, like a feeling, that reminds me of happy days filled with exploration and imagination. Days where the rest of the world fell behind me and only left a friend.
Angeles Kossio
#3. To find love, joy and peace for the humanity, let us promise to build a peace loving and a kind family.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Appreciation always enhances performance. Criticism destroys the enthusiasm.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
Debasish Mridha
#6. The more optimistic you can be the more resilient you will be to whatever challenges life throws at you.
Auliq Ice
#7. The journey of life requires alot of enthusiasms, great passion and commitment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.
Basith
#9. You must dare the impossible. With divine grace, it will be possible.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#10. The first duty of a man is to love himself. When someone loves himself, he is loving the universe. This universe is existing because of you.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Be happy because you are enjoying the most amazing miracle called life.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.
Frederick Lenz
#13. Resentment is the little fire that can transform and destroy the world by becoming a wildfire.
Debasish Mridha
#14. Life is meaningless until we learn to use the power of divine love and see the divine in every event and in every beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#16. The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the realm of actuality, but to the realms of possibility and necessity: to what might be and what must be, rather than to what is.
Roger Scruton
#18. There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.
Sue Grafton
#19. A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character ...
John Stuart Mill
#20. Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ensure that others too enjoy their own freedom, peace, harmony and bliss.
Vishwas Chavan
#21. Stress comes from the fear of the unknown; tranquility comes from accepting the unknown with love and joy.
Debasish Mridha
#22. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it - which always amounts to the same.
Jacques Derrida
#24. One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries.
Gail Godwin
#25. Oh beloved,
I want to live in your love,
to feel the joy of life,
to see the beauty of desires,
to enjoy the song of heart,
to dance with you, my love.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Everything that happens in philosophy has, in the last instance, not only political consequences in theory, but also political consequences in politics: in the political class struggle.
Louis Althusser
#27. There is no room in this philosophy for a middle ground, or a series of gradations, between the passive and aggressive status. Many,
Benjamin Graham
#28. The subconscious mind is the product of universal consciousness, universal knowledge, and universal beauty. It is the reflecting mirror of our conscious mind. The subconscious mind is always eager to manifest through our conscious mind.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.
Michel De Montaigne
#30. Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Knowledge is the ability to obtain, process and use information, so that it benefits you as an asset and not a liability
Kloby
#32. Be a mirror of life. Let everyone see their own astonishing beauty in your mirror.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.
Auliq Ice
#34. Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.
Klaus Fuchs
#35. Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.
Aleksandra Layland
#36. Through the window of my soul and the mirror of my mind, I was looking for the beauty of my life. I could not find it, but I found it in the glint of a dew drop at the edge of a dancing leaf.
Debasish Mridha
#37. We often know information but not the epistemology of that information.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Love is the treasure of life, so spend it as much as you can. As you spend, the universe will be richer and friendlier. It will pay you back a thousand times more.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
Emil Cioran
#40. There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.
Dejan Stojanovic
#41. Fifty percent of life is ninety percent indecisive. The rest is confusing.
Brian Spellman
#42. Once we got closer to the origins of these Eastern practices, we found that the monks and swamis were just as dogmatic and paternalistic, just as literal and conservative in their approach to spirituality as the Christian priests and ministers we were trying to get away from.
Gudjon Bergmann
#43. If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.
C. G. Jung
#44. Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)
Swami Satchidananda
#45. The most beautiful things in life happen, when they are least expected.
Deepak Rana
#46. The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
Adyashanti
#47. To see the unseen, you must see through the beauty of love.
Debasish Mridha
#48. You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.
Melina Mercouri
#49. Try and avoid people who use the word "cant" regularly associate rather with those who say "can" and do
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#50. The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Abraham Maslow
#51. No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?
Henry David Thoreau
#52. We become angels when we fly with the wings of love. We can reach any destination and touch any heart without any hesitation.
Debasish Mridha
#53. The morning sun will bring you a fresh new day with a fresh new world of possibilities.
Debasish Mridha
#55. In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.
Neil Postman
#56. The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.
Abhijit Naskar
#59. There are more treasures hiding in between your ears than can be hidden in the whole earth.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Smiles are the dance of our soul,
with the music of love,
to express the beauty of mind,
for the happiness of spirit,
and for the joy of the world.
Debasish Mridha
#61. That macho protective bullshit is just some asshat man pissing on his territory so the other dogs will stay away.
Tammara Webber
#62. You live only once, so enjoy the life at its best and live it to the fullest.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
#64. Let your soul be washed by the waves of love to feel the joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#65. It is better to lose and gain the love, than win and lose the love.
Debasish Mridha
#66. We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
Dejan Stojanovic
#67. I have no time to look back. My heart is dancing in the present moment feeling the joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#70. Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.
Debasish Mridha
#71. If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!
Emmy Rossum
#72. [Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#73. Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
#74. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
#75. And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
John Donne
#76. Extend your loving and kind hands towards others. In return you will find that the whole universe will be kind to you.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Zen professes
itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all
religions and philosophies,
D.T. Suzuki
#78. The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#79. I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
Aleister Crowley
#80. She wouldn't disapprove of people who gave up philosophy or literary theory to do ordinary things." "Maybe not," mused Maggie. "If we eat pies, then we should never, not for one moment, look down on the making of them.
Alexander McCall Smith
#81. Imagination and action are the mothers of all creation.
Debasish Mridha
#82. I'm not so sure," Dad said. "Every damn thing in the universe can be broken down into smaller things, even atom, even protons, so theoretically speaking, I guess you had a winning case. A collection of things should be considered one thing. Unfortunately, theory don't always carry the day.
Jeannette Walls
#85. No one can tell what the future holds, you're backs to the corner, you make the choice of how it goes.
Kenny Loggins
#87. Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do and what you want to be, and don't be afraid to pay the price to get it.
Anonymous
#88. Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity."
"FYI, philosophy bores me."
"Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.
J.R. Ward
#89. In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.
Peter Kreeft
#91. Living as human being and as a divinity.
moving from tension into relaxation,
from relaxation into trance,
from trance into a more intense contact with other people.
from that contact back into tension and so on,
Like The Serpent swallowing its own tail.
Paulo Coelho
#92. They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.
Og Mandino
#93. I've never been one to go to church, but I've al was ways believed in a creative intelligence behind the ongoing riddle of the world.
Bill Clegg
#94. We youths say "like" all the time because we mistrust reality.
James S. Kunen
#96. Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
#97. The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
Bertrand Russell
#98. Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.
Frederick Lenz
#99. The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
Adam Sedgwick
#100. The best and biggest gold mine is in between your ears. To find the gold, think deeply and think better.
Debasish Mridha