It Philosophy Quotes

Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see.

Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.

The only way to go back in time is by moving into the future

Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.

Whoever challenges freaks should noticethat in the method he does not mature into a beast.

We must love those close to us, all the time, every day. Moments only happen once. Make them matter.

The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life.

The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude.

If the religious system does not correspond to the prevalent social character, if it conflicts with the social practice of life, it is only an ideology.

They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.

The reality is that every time we manipulate nature's rhythms, we create unintended consequences that then require us to make still further changes."~ Glenn Aparicio Parry

As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.

We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us.

I have heard that we are spirits having a human experience. Perhaps those of us who have no conscience are dark spirits having a human experience.

A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.

Let’s train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

How old you would become if you don't know how young you are.

The expression of preferences is the essence of love.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

At night we sort the energy that by day we sense.

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

When the intensity it takes to extricate one from a negative state is equal to or greater than the intensity that perpetuated the state, then the person can be freed of that state

Excerpt from "The Strength in Knowing"Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits theessence of all that is

It's Unfair to be fair, For Life is unfair

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

To a certain degree, We all seek, life’s purpose and meaning, love, peace and joy, and knowledge, wealth and power…

We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understandand recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could not appreciate sweet....

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo

Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.

Wisdom is not guaranteed with age but is realized through one's sensitivity to humanity and the universe

Failure is a part of life. Success teaches you nothing, but failure teaches you resilience. It teaches you to pick yourself up and try again.

The glory of life is strength of existence.

Your success does not depend on who you are but what you are and the strength of your expectations.

May you find grace to do what needs to be done.

Courage to dare, Strength to act.