The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest...

When two creatures meet, the one that is able to intimidate its opponent is recognized as socially superior, so that a social decision does not always depend on a fight; an encounter in some circumstances...

Si se lo permitimos, los niños pueden enseñarnos la salida. Hay una historia muy conocida de una madre que entra en la habitación de su hijo recién nacido y se encuentra a su otro hijo,...

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent...

To accomplish your mission, follow your passion.

I think, therefore I’ll think.

But I don’t think we shall quarrel about a word – the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won’t be of...

The source of man’s rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is man. Rights are conditions of existence required by man’s nature...

When I say “The good man gave his good dog a good meal,” I use “good” analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good...

A flower is symbol of beauty for eyes, but music is the expression of beauty for ears.

Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what this bad...

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am...

One absolutely sure way to be fearless is to speak the truth at all time about everything.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Love is the stimulation for the creation. If there is no love, there is no humanity.

He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. Why might...

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

Nobody can love you if you don’t love yourself.

Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at right time, it is also about taking actions at right time.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in...

Love is the only reality, everything else is secondary.

Don’t behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don’t depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them.

Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it’s some kind of “knack” or some kind of “affinity for machines” in operation. They are right, but...

Our heart is made by the love, for the love, and with the love.

There are no boring jobs, only boring men.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they’re so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Treat your advices like your money, don’t give it to others unless they ask for it.

To the extent that in one’s act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty.

True love is when you love someone without hesitation, without expectations, and without judgment.

I have been loved enough, now I want to be respected.

For the first time (but how long will it take us to acknowledge this?) in the history of ideas, a philosopher had dedicated a whole book to the question of atheism. He professed it, demonstrated...

Life is miraculous and love is the miracle.

Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all.

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, ‘God, I just don’t know...

Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the human heart and put...

Can social progress be made without government?It’s like saying ‘can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be achieved without rape? Can profitability be achieved without theft? Can economic growth be achieved...

What is first?Love or life?Life or love?Intention or emotions?Emotions or intentions?

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

You can understand a philosophy thoroughly without having to follow it; but you understand religion only partially, that is, as a mere philosophy, unless you follow it.

To live, embrace love, to die, cease to love.

Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing,...

Dear Hunger Games :Screw you for helping cowards pretend you have to be great with a bow to fight evil.You don’t need to be drafted into a monkey-infested jungle to fight evil.You don’t need your...

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else