Philosophical Quotes

Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.

~ Luanne Castle

Every human creates his own imagined version of the world, and of himself. Every human is therefore Brahma, creator of his own aham.Aham Brahmasmi, I am Brahma. Tat tvam asi, so are you.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Of all the things I expected to find in my lunch, a live snake wasn't one of them.

~ Peter James West

Best that all mischief be undertaken behind a squeaky door

~ Benny Bellamacina

When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top

~ Benny Bellamacina

Love your body, love your sexuality, and realize that you are a bad human being only if you are unkind and cruel and do harm unto others and not because of your sex life.

~ Roxana Shirazi

The incarnation is not a soul into a body, it is an illusory world known as a life into consciousness.

~ One Iam

Life is like a double-blind experiment. And the Observer is the only One in on the Know.

~ Solange Nicole

This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

~ David Mitchell

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

~ George R.r. Martin

The truth about life is complicated, indefensible and embarrassing.

~ Alex Weinle

metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love

~ Milan Kundera

Some things happen to us from which we never recover, and they disrupt the normalcy of our lives. That's how life is. Human nature has a tendency to try to reconstruct old ways and pick up where we left off. If we're wise, we won't continue to go back to the way things were (we can't anyway). We must instead forget the old standard and accept a 'new normal.

~ Don Piper

WISEGod decides different paths for us,That a single soul to follow.He trains us through our journeys to earth,And gives us misery and sorrow.Sufferings or happiness, none stay forever,They come and go like waves,A wise treats both as gifts of God,Balanced he always behaves.From : RAINS OF GEMSISBN : a) Softcover : 978-1-4828-1304-3 b) Ebook : 978-1-4828-1303-6

~ Dipak Mukhopadhyay

All his life he would cherish the memory of an endless caravan of camels alongside the railway line, the laden beasts plodding patiently through the snow, ignoring the twentieth century as it hurtled past them in a clash of iron and a shriek of steam.

~ Ken Follett

One of the protestor's sign catches my eye. HOMISEXUALITY IS THE DEVIL'S WORK, it says. And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

~ David Levithan

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us, we are it's victim and we have no control over it.

~ William Glasser

If you want to know what's going on, keep your mind in the fridge or it might go off.

~ Benny Bellamacina

Better to have too much time to manage, than too much money that manages all your time

~ Benny Bellamacina

Running Doesn't Change Anything...Dying Does.

~ Gaurav Dashputra

--perhaps a soul is what you have spent your life making, not a piece of metaphysical equipment shipped ready-made from the factory, another myth like original sin, which you were outfitted with at birth and could somehow lose, like men high and low sometimes lost their humanity--

~ Bob Shacochis

Hiding things is the most foolish thing that annihilates correlation.

~ Waqas Bin Ehsan

Only those exceptional at mimicking others feel at ease in the world.

~ Anonymousse

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

~ John G. Neihardt

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

~ Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

~ Oscar Wilde

When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

~ Francis Ponge

Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

~ Virginia Woolf

Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. You can read it in his face, in his stance. Yet his complaint that a man’s life is no bargain masks the actual case with him. Which is that men will not do as he wishes them to. Have never done, never will do. That’s the way of things with him and his life is so balked about by difficulty and become so altered of its intended architecture that he is little more than a walking hovel hardly fit to house the human spirit at all. Can he say, such a man, that there is no malign thing set against him? That there is no power and no force and no cause? What manner of heretic could doubt agency and claimant alike? Can he believe that the wreckage of his existence is unentailed? No liens, no creditors? That gods of vengeance and of compassion alike lie sleeping in their crypt and whether our cries are for an accounting or for the destruction of the ledgers altogether they must evoke only the same silence and that it is this silence which will prevail?

~ Cormac Mccarthy

This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge enshadowed him where he crouched at his trade but he was a coldforger who worked with hammer and die, perhaps under some indictment and an exile from men's fires, hammering out like his own conjectural destiny all through the night of his becoming some coinage for a dawn that would not be. It is this false moneyer with his gravers and burins who seeks favor with the judge and he is at contriving from cold slag brute in the crucible a face that will pass, an image that will render this residual specie current in the markets where men barter. Of this is the judge judge and the night does not end.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

In true love, one has no reservations.True love is unquestionable,indisputable and totally recognizable.

~ I. Alan Appt

Society says that to free a man from his demons you have to lock him in a cage, I say to lock his demons in a cage you have to free the man from society.

~ Jakk Folley

Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time

~ Benny Bellamacina

Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask.

~ Stephanie Mbida

It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes the memory remains: the awareness of the gazelle, the instinct of the antelope. The wind whispers through the grass. A shadow flits between the trees. And up speaks the little voice that goes. Shhhh, it's close now. Close.

~ Rick Yancey

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

~ Bertrand Russell