I have a question for you. When you were a little boy, is this the man you dreamed of becoming?

Life without a defined purpose is similar to a boat without a crew in the middle of the ocean.

God endlessly fails to extend his blessings. That is because he no longer sits on the throne.

Success is defined, not by what you achieve in life, but by what you do for others without expectations.

One must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. I’m alive and it’s not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I...

Opinion about religion might be different, but religion should be one and that is the well being of humanity.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it’s really important.

I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today’s peak experiences.

And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn’t mean that there’s no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be...

If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don’t want it.

We don’t learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff that they try to force down our throats. Philosophers try to figure things...

Peace is not merely the absence of war or conflict but the presence of tranquility, harmony and love.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Anyone who symbolizes himself a hater in anythingdeserves no love at all

The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy....

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

If we think about the world peace as much as we think about what to eat next time only for a month, peace will be there.

If we try to measure Now, we find it’s always gone, has become part of the past.

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It...

You can never make someone like something they don’t like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

We are all running towards a destination which doesn’t exist. On our way, dogs of life keep barking at us where we respond to some and some we throw stones at. Every dog teaches a...

Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that...

Peace is bald eagle Flying and flying over the treesIn search for a spotUnder the blue sky To build her nest to care.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

Is life like this? Is it a past that goes by, then crumbles away, and a present that runs in the wake of the past, and a future that can only be grasped if one...

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

There is no right or wrong.There is no weak or strong.There is only you.There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you.There is no beast or beauty.There is no...

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

Making mistakes is important because it makes you wiser.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

If you quit pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you’ve come to success. It might have been hidden behind that next door you decided not to open, since the last fifty doors...

Anger and resentment are problems for our understanding and vision. They happen when we are away from our real purpose and mission.

Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a...

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Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it’s the effect or...

If someone ridicules you, say to him, I love you.

we are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don’t hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us…

We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and...

Love for each other is always there.Open your heart, feel it, it will get better.

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

Dale’s face is older. Just a little. Around the eyes and mouth. The skin of his neck. The back of his hands. Maybe not, he thinks, turning on the faucet, letting the water grow warm...

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.

The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted...

We need to empower the world with the power of love.

My ‘passion’ is my priority.

No, I do not believe in fate, that some spirits of the heavens weave the laws of the world to make it so. That is dogma for the foolish, for the universe is quite able...