It Philosophy Quotes
People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.
...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.
A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.
People will not remember what you did for living, they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.
Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt.
This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.
There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves.
Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.
Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.
It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.
...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.
The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.
The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence
Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable.
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people
A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
The true philosopher is a man who says "All right, " and goes to sleep in his armchair.
Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.
The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.
Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.
The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.
Do you not think that God will protect us?”“No, ” he said flatly. “My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.
Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.
We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.
We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.
