Philosophy Quotes

The commendable thing about life is that it is always one step ahead of you, no matter how much you do or how little. So you can only expect that if you give your best, life will only give/be better.P.S – To say that attitude matters is trivial. To know that attitude matters is mandatory.

~ Preeti Bhonsle

...faith must recognize the autonomy of reason and its ability to produce a rational, secular ethics. By the same criterion, reason must accept that it is legitimate for the heart, consciousness and faith to believe in an order and ends thar exist prior to its observation, discoveries and hypotheses. Once the distinction between the realms of faith and reason, and religion and science, has been accepted, it is therefore futile to debate, and still less to dispute, the hierarchy of first truths or the nature of the authority granted to their methods and their references.

~ Tariq Ramadan

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

~ Marty Rubin

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

~ Piero Scaruffi

There is no science without spirituality, spirituality has no meaning without science.

~ Debasish Mridha

Write as if life has no meanings without writing.

~ Debasish Mridha

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.

~ Marty Rubin

The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our brief time in the midst of an impenetrable darkness. A small area is lighted up: our civilizations, our sciences, our loves. We prove unable to define the place of the lighted area within a larger space devoid of light, and must go to our deaths unenlightened.

~ Roberto Mangabeira Unger

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

~ Criss Jami

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 gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation, which holds between language and the world.To all of them the logical structure is common.(Like the two youths, their two horses and their lilies in the story. They are all in a certain sense one.)

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Practices are cultural: they do not submit to the meanings that an individual wants them to have, either for herself or for others.

~ Clare Chambers

A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of human understanding by which we achieve meaningful experience that we can make sense of. A metaphor, in this experiential sense, is a process by which we understand and structure one domain of experience in terms of another domain of a different kind.

~ Mark Johnson

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.

~ Roberto Bolaño

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with our kind of life. But essentially the same laws and constants are required to make a rock. So why not talk about a Universe designed so rocks could one day come to be, and strong and weak Lithic Principles? If stones could philosophize, I imagine Lithic Principles would be at the intellectual frontiers.

~ Carl Sagan

Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish, but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough, one destroys.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

One makes his own meanings as the counterfeiter prints his own money: both know full well that the value of either rests solely in the gullibility of its recipient...

~ Dan Garfat-Pratt

examination of its own history and of the forms of thought given the name “philosophy” indicates that “philosophy” has itself borne many fundamentally different meanings through the years, and from one school or movement to another.

~ Gregory B. Sadler

Where does the past go when it changes?

~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Past is aipsom if you learned from the past.

~ Debasish Mridha

Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.

~ Debasish Mridha

I can't defeat anyone except my past and transcend to be better.

~ Debasish Mridha

Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past.

~ Debasish Mridha

One minute you are here and the next moment you are some place else, some time a long ago. That is the thing about your mind. Memories. Everything still exists in the folds of your brain; you may try to forget or honestly believe that you have forgotten but nothing is ever erased. Every memory is registered, good or bad does not matter. Sometimes you bring some out on purpose, sometimes some memory jumps at you on its own, shocking you, shaking you, making you realize how far you have come and at the same time proving to you that you can never really go far enough.

~ Arti Honrao

If you want a safe compass to guide you through life, and to banish all doubt as to the right way of looking at it, you cannot do better than accustom yourself to regard this world as a penitentiary... • If you accustom yourself to this view of life you will regulate your expectations accordingly, and cease to look upon all its disagreeable incidents, great and small, its sufferings, its worries, its misery, as anything unusual or irregular; nay, you will find that everything is as it should be, in a world where each of us pays the penalty of existence in his own peculiar way.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Sufferings helps to soften the harden heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain

~ Evan Sutter

In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

Don't be afraid of suffering. Often scars are the medals of success.

~ Debasish Mridha

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

~ Ashley Montagu

Life has existential suffering, we become happy by caring.

~ Debasish Mridha

Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.

~ Criss Jami

I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.

~ David Pearce

1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse.2) An omniscient, wholly good being would prevent the occurrence of any intense suffering it could, unless it could not do so without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse.3) (Therefore) There does not exist an omnipotent, omniscient, wholly good being.

~ William L. Rowe

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

~ John N. Gray

Confidence comes from relentless pursuit of perfection.

~ Debasish Mridha

Never be too confident or ndomdoubtful when everything is uncertain in this world.

~ Veera Pratap Desu

Never be too confident or doubtful when everything is uncertain in life.

~ Veera Pratap Desu