If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then you may be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas.The solution to the problem often at first seems unimportant or undesirable, but the state...

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life.

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will...

For an act to be evil, you must first perceive it, process and then conceive it as such. Then these acts are effects. They’re not causes. And by this I mean that these acts are...

Gratitude is one of the greatest attitudes of the human heart.

Being’ cannot be derived from higher concepts by definition, nor can it be presented through lower ones. But does this imply being no longer offers a problem? Not at all. We can infer only that...

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the following objections: an extremely small prior probability merited by the God of theism...

Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies—good or bad—cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good.

Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew:...

Not the revenge, but the forgiveness, is the attribute of a strong person.

There’s nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you’re alone you can be yourself, but when you’re in empty relationships you can’t even be yourself.You can be real alone, or you can be a...

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness...

Success comes from patience and passion.

Tristetea, ca si suferinta, ne revela existenta, deoarece în ele avem în constiinta separatia noastra de lumea obiectiva si nelinistea care da un caracter tragic vietuirii în existenta.Daca ar exista un zeu al tristetii, lui...

Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

Life is more than we get and possess. It is a mystery!

I imagine, therefore I am.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.

There’s always someone’s father, someone’s mother, someone’s wife, someone’s son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person.

Behind every wolf in sheep’s clothing is a trail of dead sheep.

When you have a purpose in life it becomes the light to show you the path toward your destination.

Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.

For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies...

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

In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all...

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.

It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners – to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement...

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

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

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

There are people who will always doubt you and you have to live with it. It only gets a lot worse when you have to die with it!

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

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

How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition … The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction for this obscene call, ENJOY, is superego. The problem today is not how...

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

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.

Rockabye Baby, in the treetopDont you know a treetopis no safe place to rock?And who put you up there,and your cradle too?Baby,I think someone down herehas got it in for you!

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)

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...

The time of the autumn floods came and the hundred streams poured into the Yellow River. … Then the Lord of the River was beside himself with Joy, believing that all the beauty in the...

In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent

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

Death is Perfection’s reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers.

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

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