Philosophy Quotes

I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has universal value. Starting out from something that is simply anencounter, a trifle, you learn that you can experience the world on the basis of difference and not only in terms of identity. And you can even be tested and suffer in the process. In today’s world, it is generally thought that individuals only pursue their own self-interest. Love is an antidote to that. Provided it isn’t conceived only as an exchange of mutual favours, or isn’t calculated way in advance as a profitable investment, love really is a unique trust placed in chance. It takes us into key areas of the experience of what is difference and, essentially, leads to the idea that you can experience the world from the perspective of difference. In this respect it has universal implications: it is an individual experience of potential universality, and is thus central to philosophy, as Plato was the first to intuit.

~ Alain Badiou

Color shows us love.AndLove gives us color.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

On Paper*some call it poetrybut it is just painon paper_____________________rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015The Poetic Assassin

~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Anarchy has the flexibility to overcome many of the traditional problems of activism by focusing on revolution not as another cause but as a philosophy of living. This philosophy is as concrete as a brick being thrown through a window or flowers growing in the garden. By making our daily lives revolutionary, we destroy the artificial separation between activism and everyday life. Why settle for comrades and fellow activists when we can have friends and lovers?

~ Curious George Brigade

When you want to know how God wants you to reach your city, start a new church, or be involved in His work, ask Him. Then when He tells you, don't be surprised if you can't find any church that is doing it the same way.

~ Henry T. Blackaby

Those who can truly see, know.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Don't fear the world and you will conquer it, fear it and it conquers you - rjs

~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

I am going through transformation. I enjoy the different transitions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Warrior of the night must be awake to write the sacred words.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All things are beautiful in the sacred time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is an end to everything even life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s intelligence – it does not define an individual’s ambitions - it does not define an individual’s dreams – and above all, it does not define an individual’s character.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means.

~ Louis L'amour

A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

~ Debasish Mridha

When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in.

~ Debasish Mridha

For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.

~ Debasish Mridha

WHO WHAT WHERE WHY WHENPersonality redefines character through phases of wisdom at different ages

~ Kamil Ali

CORE ADOREOur true worth lies in our character, not in our accomplishments

~ Kamil Ali

Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.

~ Raheel Farooq

​On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reigning doctrines are often called a double standard.The term is misleading.It is more accurate to describe them as a single standard,clear and unmistakable,the standard that Adam Smith called the vile maxim of the masters of mankind: ...All for ourselves,and nothing for other people. Much has changed since his day,but the vile maxim flourishes.

~ Noam Chomsky

A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal thing; it is not collective. You don’t gain liberty because you belong to a group. So we don’t talk about women’s rights or gay rights or anything else. Everybody has an absolute equal right as an individual, and it comes to them naturally.

~ Ron Paul

The fact that corporations constitute what amounts to the governing class today evidences the fact that we are no longer a representative republic; that we are a most ruled people, under the ceaseless control of a government that is for and by the corporations, can no longer be denied. The implications are immense: a transformation of not only our economic but our political organization is necessary.

~ Matthew P. Holbert

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

Statism ends with an eye roll.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn't.

~ Amit Kalantri

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as armed teens?

~ Stefan Molyneux

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Rights are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

~ Stefan Molyneux

You are constantly being trained to be heroic only in the service of your masters - only in slaughter and sacrifice and subjugation. But there is no heroism in serving your masters. Real heroism is questioning why you have masters at all.All these stories, all these fantasies, all these superpowers - are designed to steal heroism from you, to make it impossible, fantastical, remote, and unachievable - and make you useful to your masters (as a hit man, if needed). What is the opposite of this?The opposite of fantasy is philosophy. The opposite of mythology is integrity. And integrity is truth in action.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Historical definition of a country's borders... ...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Did not Socrates, all the while he unflinchingly refused to concede one iota of loyalty to his daemon, obey with equal fidelity and equanimity the command of his earthly master, the State? His conscience he followed, alive; his country he served, dying. Alack the day when a state grows so powerful as to demand of its citizens the dictates of their consciences!

~ Inazo Nitobe

If you do not question everything, you may never find the true answer, you will only find the answer everyone wants to believe.That it called being another sheep in the herd, that is why the people who question things are considered black sheep and the people who give you the answers, Wolves

~ Theodore Coldiron