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...

Go back to Socrates: “Know thyself.” For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the...

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

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

Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. … Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that Poincaré had, and none in his superior in...

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...

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...

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

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

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

I’d seen entire constellations of possibility I’d never previously been aware of, so blinded had I been by the bright, glaring stars of expectation. Freedom, I was beginning to think, had less to do with...

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...

I’ve never really been serious about my villainy. I don’t have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there’s a little old...

What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go to mass. Or God might punish those whose faith is prompted...

There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

All actual life is encounter.

A problem is an opportunity to find a new way.

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a...

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace.

Shared Happiness gives real Happiness

Crazy isn’t a condition it’s a place and it exists somewhere between Love and Oblivion

In a very romantic moment,I want only love, not a comment.

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

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.

Imagine, dream, act, discover and wonder. Everyday is a new day to love and wonder.

The most risky liability of your life is ‘the unspoken truth’.

Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.

As well as being essential to theological study, philosophy is an indispensable tool for communicating theology, for evangelization and catechesis. A faith based on how warm and comfortable you feel and how “affirmed” you are...

Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Think of, at the moment of dying, is there will be any enemy for you? None! Everyone will be the best friend. So win all your enemies with your divine love when you are living.

Every person is a project, God’s project, I want to be the most profitable one.

Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They’re only allowed as much...

Your love is blissful, graceful, and divine. When it touches me, it burns me with joy to purify.

Taking actions will fulfill your dreams and wishes, not the prayers and blessings.

I used to size people up to see whether they were a good advert for meditation. Then at some point it clicked that there wasn’t a type of person they were going to become. They...

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

Thinking before taking actions is useful only if you are going to take action, otherwise you are wasting time and insulting your mind.

What’s the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

Nonjudgmental love never hurt you.Judgmental love always does.

Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal.

You are the best book you could ever write phi

It takes a minute to love but eternity to forget.

Treat your clients with high professionalism and they will no more negotiate with you.

[Hurricane Katrina may be a defining moment, other speakers said, and not necessarily a positive one for the Republicans.] The controlling philosophy in Washington now is to dismiss community and place all the responsibility on...

Wherever you love everything around you, forgive the past, show the gratitude, feel the joy of life, because you are a miracle still alive.

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?

Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my...