A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant’s trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

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.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It’s the only one. It’s based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It’s a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent...

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.

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was...

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.

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

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

I imagine, therefore I am.

I am the Constellation of my own

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.

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It’s like one of those rubber ‘bones’ they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind’s teeth, but as food –...

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

Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of...

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

The only thing that I am completely certain of after this experience is that I am no longer afraid of death.

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

If you understand others you are smart.If you understand yourself you are illuminated.If you overcome others you are powerful.If you overcome yourself you have strength.If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.If you...

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.

WHO WHAT WHERE WHY WHENPersonality redefines character through phases of wisdom at different ages

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

If I have learned one thing in the years of my existence, one nugget of wisdom from having lived in the midst of disputations over faith and the nature of the world, it is that...

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

Governments are just large corporations, and large corporations are just small governments.

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

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

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

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.

It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an “illogical” world would look like.

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...

My cough is much worse at night and often prevents me from sleeping. It is not so much the daytime tiredness that I resent, but the inability to proceed uninter- rupted with my dreams, to...

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.

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In...

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.

Enuncia algunos textos muy contundentes. Son textos en los cuales la destreza literaria casi infinita que tenía Sartre se pone al servicio de la contundencia conceptual. Y cuando se logra esto a un pensador se...

Philosophy begins with wonder

You can’t control anything in this world except your perception and emotion.

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. — Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)

Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

Apparently, philosophy persists, even though less obviously and less insistently than once. If John has trimmed his interests to conform to the expectations of the adult world, that’s a shame. But if he has simply...

Woman enjoy sex more than a man because they don’t pre-compile every pleasure in their mind .

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.