Philosophical Quotes

Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love. ~ Amunhotep El Bey

~ Amunhotep El Bey

If you forget who you've become remember who you are

~ Benny Bellamacina

Definition is a choice.

~ Andy Harglesis

All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

~ John Green

. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish to commit suicide?’ If we say, ‘No I do not,’ as most of us would, it is because we have reasons for living, or at the very least real hope that we can find such reasons. Then the next question is: what are the reasons I personally have for saying ‘No’ to that question? The answer contains the meaning of my life.

~ A.c. Grayling

Never condemn yourself. Always affirm positive words into your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There’s only one person to blame for lack of self confidence

~ Benny Bellamacina

Camus said there is only really one serious philosophical question, which is whether or not to commit suicide. I think there are four or five serious philosophical questions:The first one is: Who started it?The second is: Are we going to make it?The third is: Where are we going to put it?The fourth is: Who's going to clean up?And the fifth: Is it serious?Out Of Your Mind (2004), Audio lecture 1: The Nature of Consciousness: A Game That's Worth The Candle.

~ Alan W. Watts

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

~ Isaac Asimov

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

~ Mark Helprin

If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;!

~ Rudyard Kipling

Do not afraid of your previous mistakes, try to fix them.

~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Try to pause each day and take a walk to view nature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.

~ Patrick Carman

I'm a fool.At least i'm a self aware fool.

~ Colleen Hoover

To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot any where. -This nut... while so many of its brethren have fallen and been trodden under foot, is still in possession of all the happiness that a hazel-nut can be supposed capable of.

~ Jane Austen

Always take a compliment, even if it’s not yours

~ Benny Bellamacina

A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?

~ Melika Dannese Lux

Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.]

~ Jean-Pierre Jeunet

What is evil?' asked the Fiend

~ Joseph Delaney

If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

~ Phil Lesh

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.

~ Richard Finney

If on thoughts of death we are fed,Thus, a coffin, became my bed.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

~ Joe Hill

You can dance. You can make me laugh.You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got it all. Everybody loves you. You can charm the birds out of the sky, But I, I've got one thing. You always know just what to say And when to go, But I've got one thing. You can see in the dark, But I've got one thing: I loved you better. Last night I woke up,Saw this angel. He flew in my window. And he said, Girl, pretty proud of yourself, huh? And I looked around and said, Who me? And he said, The higher you fly, the faster you fall.He said, Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's rainbow. Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's Angel.

~ Laurie Anderson

[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of almost-but-not-quite satisfying bullshit.

~ Dan Simmons

There can be no law of nature, no science,No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer,Simply sweep away, should it chose to.

~ Scott Hastie

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,Eternal Wisdom can never die ...

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It is hard to take the last step, but the hardest thing is to make a choice between the unwillingness to live and the inability to die.

~ Igor Eliseev

They always act this way: push those who are falling.

~ Igor Eliseev

Hope, tell me how could it be possible that grief and happiness are scattered all over the world so unevenly? Why do some people get all the troubles and misfortunes while the others are intoxicated with the abundance of material belongings, fat bellies and money? Why is there such injustice? Or, maybe, we are mistaken it’s unfair!?

~ Igor Eliseev

Is it so hard to offer your help and sympathy to somebody in grief? It takes a little to make one step, but, in an inexplicable manner, it stretches into thousands of kilometers. All of us are full of empathy and consolation but always prefer to express it from a distance.

~ Igor Eliseev

People! Please. Listen. Our life, our bodies are the most authentic clinical record ever! Why do you have to ask for any other one, alien, fake, distorted by illegible handwriting belonging to someone who has never been us and has never tried to understand us? Do you think that is right?

~ Igor Eliseev

Maybe the consequences of someone’s unreason can be remedied only with a new unreason?

~ Igor Eliseev

It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

~ Igor Eliseev

I think everything’s beautiful that is done through human’s heart and soul, that makes one’s inner world visible, that gives a chance to look at oneself from outside – everything is beautiful, even us.

~ Igor Eliseev

We always humble ourselves before bastards - it has already become a tradition.

~ Igor Eliseev

Sometimes it feels like you and I are at the movie theater, sitting next to each other and watching the same movie. People say something, argue incessantly, even fight, but this is all somewhere far away, on the other side of the screen, and we are just passive onlookers unable to affect the course of events.

~ Igor Eliseev

My books don’t narrate about delusions that people with unusual or forbidding looks should be treated as if they are not human beings, that life finds its sense only in the midst of great sufferings and tribulations, that is difficult to smile to people who hate or despise you, that people’s desires are primitive and life is complicated, that writing a book is equal to lounging, that being a human is rather easy but seems to be quite superfluous to an average person. Perhaps my books are about worthwhile things that don’t seem to exist but is encountered every day.

~ Igor Eliseev