Sometimes the complexities of the mind can be intriguing, but the dark side of one’s thoughts can create its own phobias.

If your vision is great, you become great.

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

No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.

For a happy life, be kind and loving and be the source of happiness for others.

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

Happiness comes from your mindset.

I didn’t want to do it,’ Kiala said. ‘The universe just kind of conspired to force me to make a fool of myself. It does that quite a lot, actually.

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...

If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.

The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago by the exact sciences, is now once more dug up...

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

Disgusting cardboard it is!

When we share intelligence, wealth, or love, we grow.

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...

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Appreciate all of life’s beauty and express the deepest gratitude for all the abundance.

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...

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

Be bold, be a success, and change the world.

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

What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

Fear success but not the mistakes.

I try–without success–to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the...

Believe that you are successful, dream it every day, soon you will find that you are successful.

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...

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without...

The actuality of us being cognizant and accepting of the fact we are but a speck of sand in a universe sized desert, whose existence is irrelevant to any facet of universal function is 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...

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two...

You become lucky when you prepare yourself for the opportunity.

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...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

If you become the light of peace there will be no darkness of hatred.

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

Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can do that.

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...

Don’t be permissible. Be unstoppable.

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Peace is a fresh flower; when it’s freshness and beauty touches heart,it will last forever.

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...

For peace, look not outside but inside.

If there were a party of those who aren’t sure they’re right, I’d belong to it. ~(Camus, as quoted by Tony Judt)

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...

As a writer of philosophy, it’s good to ask oneself, ‘Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

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

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.

Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or Plato. And they don’t smile much. Nominalists have more fun. They are known...