Philosophy Quotes

Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua, lo que ignoramos es un océano.

~ Isaac Newton

Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.

~ Seneca

When you are able to love yourself deeply, you can be kind to others.

~ Debasish Mridha

Let the love of the moon kiss you good night, let the morning sun wake you up with loving light.

~ Debasish Mridha

UNDIVIDEDI am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am forOne peaceful world for all,Where hate has been overcome by love,And everyone is guided only By their conscience.

~ Suzy Kassem

What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges? Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules. And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action?

~ Epictetus

The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself.

~ Erich Fromm

Each sunrise brings a new day filled with new hopes for a new beginning.

~ Debasish Mridha

La memoria es como libro en el cual se escribe toda nuestra vida. Algunas veces deseamos cerrarlo y olvidarlo para no recordar todos los escabrosos detalles, y otras veces deseamos abrirlo y observarlo detenidamente, queriendo volver a sentir lo mismo que sentimos en aquel momento.

~ Audrey Dry

I’d like to be the moon in your sky.

~ Debasish Mridha

Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away

~ Michel Houellebecq

In the summer, we write life’s summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. The slow breeze and the warm sun write our memories.

~ Debasish Mridha

Results are always hidden in thoughts and actions.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

How many of us have lately taken the time out to look at the sky; marvel at the clouds; smell the flowers; or smelt the fresh scent of rain; bought a stranger a cup of tea or coffee; given our time to help another; or just taken time out to sit and watch people rush hither and tither; said I love you; smiled at a complete stranger; joined in with kids from the street to play a game?Sadly, I would have to say....not many.It's sad....

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Bloom as if you want to make the whole world beautiful.

~ Debasish Mridha

The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have said on another occasion, is the technique of techniques and the ars combinatoria for fabricating machines. It is a knowledge which has scarcely anything to do with comprehension.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

So that others can live in peace, talk about love and peace wherever you go.

~ Debasish Mridha

Y, entonces, en ese instante que tan solo dura un segundo, el cerebro se encarga de abrir la cerradura del cofre en el cual guardas todo lo que aprecias. Cede de tal manera que la tapa se abre y todo lo que hay en el interior sale de forma tan rápida y tan fugaz que no puedes detenerlo.

~ Audrey Dry

Ama bardağımın dibinde biram ılıksa, aynada koyu renkli lekeler varsa, fazlalıksam; en içten ve en katışıksız acım, ayıbalığı gibi, hem bir yığın et hem gepgeniş bir deriyle ve insanın içine dokunan ıslak, ama kötülük dolu gözlerle sürüklenip hantallaşıyorsa bu benim kabahatim mi?

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.

~ Anatole France

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

~ Compton Gage

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

~ Compton Gage

There's a kind of saying that you don't understand its meaning, 'I don't believe it. It's too crazy. I'm not going to accept it.'… You'll have to accept it. It's the way nature works. If you want to know how nature works, we looked at it, carefully. Looking at it, that's the way it looks. You don't like it? Go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy. I can't help it, okay? If I'm going to tell you honestly what the world looks like to the human beings who have struggled as hard as they can to understand it, I can only tell you what it looks like.

~ Richard Feynman

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.

~ Compton Gage

All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.

~ James Allen

It is not what we have that matters, what matters is what we give away with love.

~ Debasish Mridha

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

~ Diogenes Of Sinope

What's the use of complaining about something you have no intentions of changing it?

~ Mario L Castellanos

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

~ Alain De Botton

In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works.

~ Amit Kalantri

The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, tennis, research-clamored for his attention. But today nothing seemed important. He suspected that nothing had ever been important, that his mind had arbitrarily imbued projects with importance and then cunningly covered its traces. Today he saw through the ruse of a lifetime. Today there was nothing important to do, and he ambled aimlessly down Union Street.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

~ Ludwig Feuerbach

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

~ Germany Kent

To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget. Mirabeau had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he - forgot. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug the many vermin that eat deep into others.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

~ Peter Kreeft

Be in limits, life will never limit you.

~ M.h. Rakib

It’s an already inside outside,The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.

~ Alberto Caeiro

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true philosopher must never give up.

~ Jostein Gaarder

Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of free will can be compatible with determinism?orb. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society?Of course my answer is b).

~ Jerry A. Coyne