Philosophy Quotes

Happiness has no book value, but life has no value if there is no happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Heraclitus once said we cannot exist without strife but that does not mean we cannot co-exist without it.

~ Anike Kirsten

Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater.

~ Tom Stoppard

A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.

~ Michael J. Sandel

We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.

~ Plato

We try to show that the well-ordered society of justice as fairness is indeed possible according to our nature and those requirements. This endeavor belongs to political philosophy as reconciliation; for seeing that the conditions of a social world at least allow for that possibility affects our view of the world itself and our attitude toward it. No longer need it seem hopelessly hostile, a world in which the will to dominate and oppressive cruelties, abetted by prejudice and folly, must inevitably prevail. None of these may ease our loss, situated as we may be in a corrupt society. But we may reflect that the world is not in itself inhospitable to political justice and its good. Our social world might have been different and there is hope for those at another time and place

~ John Rawls

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

~ Socrates

Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

~ Michael Walzer

Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

~ Michael Walzer

Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.

~ Eraldo Banovac

It’s free to feed your mind and your mind feeds your body

~ Benny Bellamacina

A woman's assets are her infectious smile and bulletproof love.

~ Debasish Mridha

Calm sailing doesn't come from calm waters, it comes from having a good navigator; a good crew and a good vessel.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

A clone may be a good copy, but you are the real thing!

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Sometimes you need to do something bad to do something good.I guess that's the irony of life.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

I don't count my blessings,because just being alive is good enough for me.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Taking in the good, whenever and wherever we find it, gives us new eyes for seeing and living.

~ Krista Tippett

And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.

~ Thomas More

If someone drowned at sea a couple of hundred years ago they’d either start to decompose immediately or they’d get eaten by fish or other scavengers. The bones would eventually sink down to the seabed and either be slowly buried by marine silt or broken down further over the years, but the flesh would one way or another eventually become water, which would evaporate into clouds and then rain down upon the earth once again to become plants and flowers.The flowers in your garden could once have been famous pirates such as Blackbeard or Calico Jack.

~ Karl Wiggins

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The Wishing BonesA thousand grandmothers ago Pyrrha and Deucalion repopulated the world with rocks, bones of mother Earth, a generation of my ancestors strained from the mud of a drowned planet.But I’m more interested in my earliest grandmothers, their gills and wetness,before they crawled from that blue expanseand learned to carry the sea within them,in their cells, between their cells, in their eyes.The buoyancy of ocean has never left us.It hides in skin’s complex reservoir where we're selectively permeable and our bodies exchange the smallest life.If we had no need to distinguish ourselves from others we’d be missing the skin that defines lovers and enemies and opens itself to both.

~ Jalina Mhyana

During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposeless as they do now. The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus’ discovery of a new world. It just shook people up. The topsy-turviness of that time is recorded everywhere. There was nothing in the flat-earth views of the Old and New Testaments that predicted it. Yet people couldn’t deny it. The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

We’re living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with new experiences. I’ve heard it said that the only real learning results from hang-ups, where instead of expanding the branches of what you already know, you have to stop and drift laterally for a while until you come across something that allows you to expand the roots of what you already know. Everyone’s familiar with that. I think the same thing occurs with whole civilizations when expansion’s needed at the roots.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Always be respectful and open-minded when listening to another man's beliefs. What you reject today could be your mantra tomorrow. Man's evolution is all about transformations. An unexpected experience you have one day can change you forever.

~ Suzy Kassem

...quantum problems unseat many classical ideas about matter, causality, and change that biologists use, and that disruption in turn entails radical revisions to the ideas about the mechanism in evolution, in ways we don't yet acknowledge.

~ Ashish Dalela

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.

~ Ken Ham

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.

~ Peter Singer

The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world. No conception of the natural order that does not reveal it as something to be expected can aspire even to the outline of completeness. And if physical science, whatever it may have to say about the origin of life, leaves us necessarily in the dark about consciousness, that shows that it cannot provide the basic form of intelligibility for this world. There must be a very different way in which t hings as they are make sense, and that includes the physical world, since the problem cannot be quarantined in the mind.

~ Thomas Nagel

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.

~ Michael Shermer

Life is a book. When one chapter ends, the next one begins...

~ Scuro Chiaro - Photographer

A good book is a true friend who never betrays.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is no better adviser than a good book.

~ Debasish Mridha

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

~ Plato

The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.

~ John Daniel

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

~ Chris Prentiss

Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life

~ Charleston Parker

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

~ Amit Kalantri

Be an example, be positive, be enthusiastic, be proactive--that is proactive leadership.

~ Debasish Mridha

IMBALANCE,Do not let one negative carry the same weight as ninety nine positivesKamil Ali

~ Kamil Ali