The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the...

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

Like a flower, be soft, loving, kind, and beautiful, but never lose the courage to bloom.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks...

You know,” Daddy said, “it’s some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it’s others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He’s...

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

If I’m lucky, I philosophize about life’s principles on worthwhile standards that meet the test of time. I say, if I’m lucky, because I could be born into a world where principles are drilled into...

Success is important but what you become on the way to success is more important.

All must read their so-called ‘holy’ book – word by word – to determine, by self, its unholy bit.

This is your moment now. Go for it. LIVE. Choose to be happy. Choose the life you always wanted. Never settle for anything nor less than any good. You deserve to be happy. You deserve...

A painting is more than the sum of its parts,’ he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is...

When life presents you with a problem, show the courage, make yourself a hundred times bigger than the problem.

Humanity must forgive ‘Humanity’, for only then can we be Humane.

Sometimes, in a summer morning,having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrisetill noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs,in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the...

Your impact on others is the only proof of your existence

You may have already seen the rough shape and form it takes in this world, and yet you do not recognize it.

True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian...

Defensively, our philosophy is we can’t get beat deep by a long pass, … and then we’ve got to wrap up and tackle.

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

The best way to acquire wisdom is by perceptual realization.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy

Honest dishonesty. That’s quite the oxymoron – but I like the originality that you’ve brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer,” he added jokingly.

Did you fail? Try, try again. There is no gain without pain.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, ‘I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,’ Epictetus replied, ‘I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I...

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of – the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and...

Do according to your capability.Act according to your capacity.Go according to your curiosity.Be according to your possibility.

Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and...

When we will learn to be nonjudgmental with ourselves and to others this world will see the peace forever.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

The world is a peaceful place.We make it hateful by forgetting our grace.

It is worth noting that a wrong folkoric definition of an Inertial Frame in the Popular Science literature (even in text books) reads that ‘it is a frame in uniform motion’. We know very well...

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

Peace is not out there and no one can really give you peace. Most often than not you are at war with yourself. To find the peace create the inner calmness, tranquility and practice self...

Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

A samurai chooses to serve a master and does it out of respect and love, not because they are forced. Service to them is not demeaning; service is an expression of their prowess and their...

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.

Jorden tilhører ikke mennesket.Det er menneskene, der tilhører Jorden. De duftende blomster er vore søstre, og hesten, den mægtige ørn, for ikke at tale om elgen, er vore brødre. Og hvordan kan man købe eller...

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that...

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it’s made truly. The thing...

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being much...

Focus on joy, not on hurt or fear.The earth will dance, peace to share.

Le but n’est rien, le développement est tout. Le spectacle ne veut en venir à rien d’autre qu’à lui-même.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

We might have a different height and different color.But we all have parents, so we are brother and sister.We all have a different goal and a different vision.We all like to live in peace and...