Philosophical Quotes

The psychological effects of the sun are strange: it had not yet appeared over the horizon and we already felt comforted, just imagining the heat it would bring.

The people there were gods and midgets and knew themselves mortal and so the midgets walked tall so as not to embarrass the gods and the gods crouched so as to make the small ones feel at home.

A well-adjusted person wouldn't talk much. There's not a lot to be said about most of life. Most days, weeks, years, lives, nothing happens... and still we carry on chattering at each other.

So the starry sky turns round like a millstone, always bringing some trouble, and men being born or dying.

Deep down inside we always seek for our departed loved ones

If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.

The gift within every gift is always opportunity.

The mind is a flame. Blow it out, or it will blind you.

It's not always wise to assume that just because the surface of the world appears undisturbed, life is where you left it.

I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.

Better to be a successful failure, than to fail at success.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

Love is an operation theatre, where you find the scalpel and the stitches

Truly, great is pride and blindness, so that the blood dripping from the scaffold would be called justice. - Epigraph to the 5'th chapter

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.

We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.

Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life, ’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who were important.

Darkness is the natural state of the universe. Light, fleeting, comforting as it may be, may stretch to the very edges of all we know. Yet once it is gone, the darkness always remains.

What is your original face, before your mother and father were born?

Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.

How do I know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.

Would that we could choose the last image we see before death closes our eyes forever to this world.

Sometimes, one needs another pair of eyes to see things clearly.

The only difference between a prayer and a curse is the one who stands to profit.

You cannot become what you already are.

People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.

If you're going to buy a castle, make sure you get on the property extension ladder.

I'm sure I'll know it by the time I'm 80.

For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

Don't believe in coincidence. There is nothing unplanned in this universe ~ Levon Peter Poe

...something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.

I’ve always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property in which our contemporary government of criminals aspires to plunder from our compatriots by the means of unconstitutional surveillance.

Alternately in our lives come black and white.Nothing is visible through the silent dark hole:no light, no life, no meandering respitein the tunnel of death, journeys the eternal soul.

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.

You cannot create the life you need unless you pass through the death of the life you no longer want … it's just not possible. Deconstruction always comes before reconstruction.

Time is a tease

I had everything summed up in a nutshell unfortunately I lost the nut.

Cheap things are real. Cheap things are accessible. Cheap things are made for us because we don’t have any money, and even though we’d like to think we’ll have it someday, we know we don’t now.

Doing something once can be addicting. Doing it twice is admitting it.

The mentality of who is your uncle—an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan’s internal conflicts.

Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.

Every human creates his own imagined version of the world, and of himself. Every human is therefore Brahma, creator of his own aham.Aham Brahmasmi, I am Brahma. Tat tvam asi, so are you.

It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.

There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

You can't judge a book by its cover, " he said. "No, " said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!