It is important to distinguish ‘pure chance’ from ‘chance’ or ‘accident.’ Things may happen by chance or accident in a purely deterministic universe…Now there is perhaps a sense of ‘could not have done otherwise’ in...

When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to...

What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you.

If you have a definite purpose, if you have a driving desire to achieve it and if you go with passion, then don’t wait for success because you are already a success.

Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.

Expectations define achievement.

Let’s go with what you have to get what you want.

We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe

A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

When the heart is torn and broken, only love and kindness can mend it.

What comes, is called.

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

The driving desires of human hearts are to be loved and appreciated.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

I consist of body and soul – in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn’t we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more;...

Kindness is the universal language of pure love, so let us express ourselves with kindness.

O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into...

Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit’s judgment: “There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his...

Every moment, with every heartbeat, we change, but still we fear the change.

Death isn’t the end, it’s the beginning.

What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I...

There is only one way to success and that is love. Love what you want to do, it will be done.

Since we nowadays think that all a man needs for acquisition of truth is to exert his brain more or less vigorously, and since we consider an ascetic approach to knowledge hardly sensible, we have...

And poor Mr. Bix!Every morning at six,poor Mr. Bix has his Borfin to fix!It doesn’t seem fair. It just doesn’t seem right,but his Borfin just seems to go shlump every night.It shlumps in a heap,...

It is your future that really matters.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

I saw the poverty; I say the prosperity. Both have fundamental problems.

Cats don’t need to be possessed; they’re evil on their own.

The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen as that, may the poet or sculptor invent a fabulous animal with similar...

Follow your passion; follow your bliss. No matter what, you will be a success.

Love gives you eyes.

You gained experience from your past action. Set goals for the future; act now with imagination.

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.

I wasn’t sure about that, but one never knows. Sometimes a neighborhood, like a culture or civilization, is strong enough to absorb and acculturate any number of newcomers. But I don’t know if that’s true...

The first step to going somewhere is to begin.

…only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

God will create the best opportunity for you. To find those opportunities is your responsibility.

When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl, one can see the city of God. It is so wonderful that it...

Peace is not the absence of intolerance Peace is a way of life with joy of tolerance.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

If peace is our ultimate goal, love should be our only weapon.

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices – dilemmas.

Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not...

Fighting for peace is not the resolution but loving for peace is the solution.

Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes...

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow. Not being able to accept that you’re just this collection of cells, intelligent...

It ain’t no broken.