Philosophy Quotes

Generosity is the heart of humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In a stream of life, we find the source of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life, time and nature are the three greatest gifts to mankind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Amunhotep El Bey

I believe the real reason we pursue anything in life is not for the thing itself, but for who we become on the way to its accomplishment. We strive to accomplish things in the attempt to mold ourselves. The greatest benefits Jiu Jitsu will have in your life will have nothing to do with Jiu Jitsu. It is this simple understanding that allows me to persist in my study. Even on the rare days when I may not have a burning desire to practice Jiu Jitsu, I am reminded that my practicing Jiu Jitsu is more accurately my practicing to become a better human being. The lessons I learn on the mat will serve me in every area of life-- personal development, relationships, business, and the like.

~ Chris Matakas

I believe we must pursue mastery for who we become along the way in its achievement. When we progress in Jiu Jitsu, that newfound experience and wisdom transcends into all areas of our lives. We use Jiu Jitsu as the vehicle for growth, but that growth radiates over all of human activity. Someone who devotes time and energy in learning this skill is learning far more than how to subdue an opponent. The student learns persistence, perseverance, pattern recognition, problem solving, and most importantly, learning how to learn. In the arena of life, these virtues are far more valuable than any guard pass.

~ Chris Matakas

Change blows through the branches of our existence. It fortifies the roots on which we stand, infuses crimson experience with autumn hues, dismantles Winter’s brittle leaves, and ushers Spring into our fertile environments. Seeds of evolution burst from their pod cocoons and teardrop buds blossom into Summer flowers. Change releases its redolent scent, attracting the buzz of honey bees and the adoration of discerning butterflies.

~ B.g. Bowers

If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.

~ P.d. Ouspensky

What we seek is never what we seek. That is why we may not recognize that we've found what we truly yearn for.

~ Renzo Dante (Saligiare)

Only now I have added living green to the list. And that's when I realize: there is no ending to the story. There is no I lost my 70 pounds and my house is completely green. It's an ongoing process. There is no end game.It's like success. You think that at some point you make it and then it's easy. Nope. The hard work never goes away. In some ways it's harder. No coasting.

~ Jeff Garlin

You will be what you really want to be.

~ Debasish Mridha

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

~ Marcus Aurelius

I chase goals, not girls.

~ Amit Kalantri

Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal.

~ Amit Kalantri

There is a widespread philosophical tendency towards the view which tells us that Man is the measure of all things, that truth is man-made, that space and time and the world of universals are properties of the mind, and that, if there be anything not created by the mind, it is unknowable and of no account for us. This view, if our previous discussions were correct, is untrue; but in addition to being untrue, it has the effect of robbing philosophic contemplation of all that gives it value, since it fetters contemplation to Self. What it calls knowledge is not a union with the not-Self, but a set of prejudices, habits, and desires, making an impenetrable veil between us and the world beyond. The man who finds pleasure in such a theory of knowledge is like a man who never leaves the domestic circle for fear his word might not be law.

~ Bertrand Russell

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The only sin in this world is to lose faith in yourself.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It's difficult to become someone you don't know at all. It's difficult, indeed, to become yourself.

~ Michal Coret

There is no God besides the Self. One who knows the Self, knows God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

~ Fernando Pessoa

As is so often the way, what we have suppressed and overlooked issomething startlingly obvious. The difficulty is that it is so obvious andbasic that one can hardly find the words for it. The Germans call it aHintergedanke, an apprehension lying tacitly in the back of our mindswhich we cannot easily admit, even to ourselves. The sensation of I asa lonely and isolated center of being is so powerful andcommonsensical, and so fundamental to our modes of speech andthought, to our laws and social institutions, that we cannot experienceselfhood except as something superficial in the scheme of the universe. Iseem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time—arare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe ofbiological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual,sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment only tovanish forever. Under such conditioning it seems impossible and evenabsurd to realize that myself does not reside in the drop alone, but in thewhole surge of energy which ranges from the galaxies to the nuclearfields in my body. At this level of existence I am immeasurably old;my forms are infinite and their comings and goings are simply thepulses or vibrations of a single and eternal flow of energy.

~ Alan W. Watts

The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.

~ Bertrand Russell

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.

~ Jürgen Habermas

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

~ Criss Jami

We can never see what we never question, for we who escapes, blinds us

~ Farley Maglaya

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

~ Rudolf Carnap

Then he realized: 'I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.' In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.

~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.

~ István Aranyosi

Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.

~ Jim Holt

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

~ Gilles Deleuze

Noise guides only as light blinds.

~ Andy Harglesis

The biggest catch need not be grandest at all.

~ Andy Harglesis

Death is the destroyer and giver of sense.

~ Andy Harglesis

Time is rarely the limiting factor -- more so, structure often is.

~ Andy Harglesis

No action is safe from meaning.

~ Karan Mahajan

Meaning can be found in action.

~ Andy Harglesis

Let us not be judged by actions, but by means.

~ Andy Harglesis

Life only remains complex with the individual perspective. Individual perspective cannot think beyond itself while life has to consider the perspective of each and every individual.

~ Roshan Sharma

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact

~ Peter Singer

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

~ Jean Baudrillard