Religion is most often a curse; it teaches us to hate others.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

You ask me, I’d guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same,” I replied. “Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach.

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

We defy augury. There is special providence inthe fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not tocome, it will be now; if it be not now, yet...

Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did...

You are born for service, service is love, service is joy, service brings endless peace and happiness.

We replaced the players we lost with a new philosophy,

And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak,Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that tiesMy hair…now could I but unloose my soul!We are sepulchred alive in this close world,And want more room.

Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Let bricks of truth fill the skies and send their walls of conformity crashing downAnd let the heavens echo with the blows of our liberation

To sleep on our thoughts, Is better than to lose sleep over rash actions

To promote peace, promote understanding. To promote understanding, promote love.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend...

We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society.

You’re still a little shy, I see, the wizard noted. I think if you ignore evil, my friend, it tends to grow stronger. (Quinhelm, the wizard – from BRIGGEN)

Things happen or they don’t happen, that’s all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we’ve lost the habit of falling asleep. We...

Plant the seeds of peace and happiness Water it with true love and kindness Flowers of harmony will grow with hue Birds of peace will sing for all and youWith love and with beauty With...

In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

Violence never can wipe out violence, only a caring heart with love can do that.

I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. … I can digest philosophy better than food.

All are one

Peace is not the absence of fear but the presence love and care.

Philosophy begins with wonder

Me, I’ve seen 45 years, and I’ve only figured out one thing. That’s this: if a person would just make the effort, there’s something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace...

You can’t control anything in this world except your perception and emotion.

Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

The day may come when the rest of animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the...

Apparently, philosophy persists, even though less obviously and less insistently than once. If John has trimmed his interests to conform to the expectations of the adult world, that’s a shame. But if he has simply...

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

Life’s more important than a living. So many people who make a living are making death, not life. Don’t ever join them. They’re the gravediggers of our civilization – The safe men. The compromisers. The...

What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind’s reflection.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But...

This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by...

Take care of your mind. Never let negative thoughts infect your mind.

The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn’t produce a hero to look upto.

…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the...

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all...

A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp.

A prayerful life, spiritual act of upholding all that you are capable of being.

Let us create the tsunami of love to flatten the world with joy.

Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore,...

When someone loves you, you are living in the most beautiful place in the earth, in the beauty of his or her mind. So enjoy it, even if it lasts for a moment.

To perform you need practice, to practice you need passion.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?