Philosophy Quotes

I think therefore I am not sure.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

My brain has a mind of its own.

~ Polkadot

Once the powers of the mind are concentrated and turned back upon itself, as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so would the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

~ Raheel Farooq

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

~ Marcus Aurelius

The mind is a sacred mansion.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I think I think, therefore I think I probably am.

~ David F. Porteous

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

~ Baruch Spinoza

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

~ Baruch Spinoza

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

~ Baruch Spinoza

Mind and soul both exists in thoughts. Then how can you call them separate.

~ Ragesh Nair

The greatest wisdom is to understand emptiness.

~ Ragesh Nair

Unlike any other empirical object in Nature, the mind's presence is immediately apparent to itself, but opaque to all external observers.

~ George Makari

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.

~ Bruce Lee

There was no conflict between science and religion ever. The conflicts were actually between two different systems of human understanding – one was science, which was based on rigorous observations and examinations, and the other was fundamentalism, that’s based on undisputed belief on the scriptures.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Science without Philosophy leads to chaos. Philosophy without Science leads to nowhere. Only together they can construct a better world.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In mysteries of the mind are infinite miracles.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What comes out of the mouth is the state of the mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The mind is a miraculous mirror through which we see the world, but it can also see from within.

~ Debasish Mridha

Philosophy is the dance of conscience on a stage called the mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

The eyes can see nothing, the mind can see everything that the brain is ready to see.

~ Debasish Mridha

The mind of a soul is beyond another’s imagination.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can be RELIGIOUS without being SPIRITUAL or You can be SPIRITUAL without being RELIGIOUS or Both It all depends on your Philosophy.

~ Constance Chuks Friday

Human life is a great story written by the mysterious, mystical and magical human mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

The mind is an invisible net that can catch any event with its power of perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

How can we expect to be happy when we have no peace of mind, when our mind is constantly jumping from the present to the past? When your mind is constantly running and filled with anxiety and fear, where is the freedom? You are stuck in the prison of your mind, stuck in thoughts and feelings from yesterday, from five years ago. There comes a time when everyone has to stop, look deep, breathe and let go.

~ Evan Sutter

Education is a journey of the mind to kindle the fire of imagination.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

Thinking new things is the best way to exercise the mind.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

Thoughts are a product manufactured by the relentless effort of the machine we call a mind.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

It’s easy to put the links between the increases in mental illness, depression, ADHD, and the like, with the speed of the modern world. People never get the chance to do nothing, or when they do, they lack the control to prevent their mind from racing off in a thousand different directions. So much so that their doing nothing becomes a thousand different things and the thousand different things becomes stress, anxiety, worry and fear. Left untreated these simple everyday things become well entrenched in our psyches and start to dominate our lives. We have a chronic addiction with doing and we love to use our busyness as a stamp of our hard work and hectic lives and we get stuck in this busy trap of always doing.

~ Evan Sutter

To a common man, the opulence of the day makes no sense but to a philosopher, it is as clear as a night in the southern France.

~ Indiana Lang

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.

~ Ancient Chinese Proverb

Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one’s consciousness, the refusal to think - not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict ‘It is.

~ Ayn Rand

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

~ Ayn Rand

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

~ Ayn Rand

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

~ Ayn Rand

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper. By refusing to say ‘It is,’ you are refusing to say ‘I am.’ By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person. When a man declares: ‘Who am I to know?’- he is declaring: ‘Who am I to live?

~ Ayn Rand

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

~ Ayn Rand

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

~ Ayn Rand