No matter what you’re going through, have faith and have love.

When you are giving give with love and kindness.

Laughter is the antidote to existential pain

Believe yourself again and again to find yourself.

Life is simple and beautiful.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

It is only in pain that a woman is capable of rising above mediocrity. Her resistance to pain is infinite; one can use and abuse it without any fear that she will die, as long...

Never pursue happiness, just be happy.

Everyone tells us to be one in a million… What they don’t tell us is that being one in a million also means being one against a million.

Nothing is more important than our family where our heart dwells.

You are educated when you learn to coexist with othersAnd as a result you enhance the whole existence.

Your task is not to find a job but to find what makes you happy and do it with all your love.

When you act strong you are truly weak. When you are soft and kind your heart is truly strong.

The ancients wrote down the first scripture of choreography by observing in the night sky movements of the dancing stars.

If you don’t fear the failure, then failures are the best muscle builder.

When I compete, I leave it all on the table. That’s my philosophy for the Hot Dog Eating Contest. Do you know what’s in those things? Gross!

However, just as earlier, when Christianity was introduced it didn’t eliminate pagan conceptualizations, but layered new beliefs on top of them, so science simply added to the western mindset. It didn’t fully displace religion, luck,...

The saying goes, ‘the longer wars drag out, the more motivation gets muddled with the blood.’ Secrets get bigger. Rumors start. It’s already begun, my friend, it’s already begun.

If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest — like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort,...

Judaism, for example, presents itself as monotheistic and retrofits that claim on its history by revising its lore. But in ancient times, Judaism was much more accurately Henotheism, wherein people (particularly common folk) worshipped a...

A journey of a lifetime is measured by memories, not by time.

I dance with hopes and sing along with possibilities.

But there is only one mechanism to life, one way in which Reality functions. Theology, the rendered definition behind religion, philosophy and science all purport to depict that functionality. But if each fails to do...

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

It is ok to be a teacher but it is great to be an educator.

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

,Quién soy? ,Para qué vine al mundo? ,Por qué no puedo encontrarle gusto a la vida?Los filósofos no son los únicos que se hacen estas preguntas: también los vividores profesionales. La diferencia es que nosotros...

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

Across the board… Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are – and we’re not weird, are we? Hell no, we’re just...

Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night...

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.

Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas, das überwunden werden soll. Was habt ihr gethan, ihn zu überwinden? Was ist der Affe für en Menschen? Ein Gelächter oder eine schmerzliche Scham. Und ebendas...

Life’s managed, not cured.

We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing...

That’s who our boss is. Our philosophy is that we work for the customer.

Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From ‘Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather’, by Robert Gately

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death– ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life:...

YOUR DREAMS WANT YOU. YOUR DREAMS LOVE YOU AS MUCH AS YOU LOVE IT.

Good” and “Bad” may be alien concepts to him, Ben.

You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had...

This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don’t like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think....

The growth of the exploiters’ revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath human dignity, particularly any form of hand work. We have made it our...

I came; I saw the possibilities; I made it a reality.

Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason...

This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in...

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.