Philosophy Quotes

Success is never a place but a perspective.

~ Debasish Mridha

The philosopher often appears ridiculous in the practical affairs of life, because he or she has stepped out of the rush of time.

~ Theaetetus

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the forest bordering on the sand dune, there will be a moment when these details suddenly become part of the ship, and indissolubly fused with it. As I approached, I did not perceive resemblances or proximities which finally came together to form a continuous picture of the upper part of the ship. I merely felt that the look of the object was on the point of altering, that something was imminent in this tension, as a storm is imminent in storm clouds.Suddenly the sight before me was recast in a manner satisfying to my vague expectation. Only afterwards did I recognize, as justifications for the change, the resemblance and contiguity of what I call ‘stimuli’— namely the most determinate phenomena, seen at close quarters and with which I compose the ‘true’ world. ‘How could I have failed to see that these pieces of wood were an integral part of the ship? For they were of the same colour as the ship, and fitted well enough into its superstructure.’ But these reasons for correct perception were not given as reasons beforehand. The unity of the object is based on the foreshadowing of an imminent order which is about to spring upon us a reply to questions merely latent in the landscape. It solves a problem set only in the form of a vague feeling of uneasiness, it organizes elements which up to that moment did not belong to the same universe and which, for that reason, as Kant said with profound insight, could not be associated. By placing them on the same footing, that of the unique object, synopsis makes continuity and resemblance between them possible. An impression can never by itself be associated with another impression.

~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Moon is a shining ball,from the window on my wall.Moon is blemish-laden,from the terrace of my mansion.Moon is a cold flame,from the porthole of my airplane.Yet I have heard,Moon is muse to philosophy brothers,Moon is nurse to romantic lovers.How can it be so various?Are we not the same?Or did the Moon really change?

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

~ Chris Prentiss

What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you.

~ Chris Prentiss

In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the plate and took action to help a crippled population. All credit for the establishment of their wonderful, life-saving group goes to them and to those who came after them who have continued the tradition. However, there are hundreds of millions of people who still need help who are not among the estimated two or three million who attend twelve-step meetings.

~ Chris Prentiss

He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. Why might this be interesting, or even inspiring? Perhaps because unhappiness can stem from only having one perspective to play with.

~ Alain De Botton

Confidence is the greatest success.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything is transient. You must transcend and transform for higher self realization.

~ Debasish Mridha

Success is never a place or position but a new state of self-realization.

~ Debasish Mridha

There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of. Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath

~ P.a. Speers

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

~ Adi Shankaracarya

Look at this leaf. When you’re standing close to it you can see every single detail of the leaf. You may think that it’s important to see things, like this leaf, up close but that is an incorrect notion because it is also important to view things from afar. That’s why it is necessary to look at all perspectives of an issue or of an object. --The Unnamed Samurai (Chapter 5)

~ Melissa Rose Lawrence

Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.

~ Eraldo Banovac

There wouldn't be life without colour.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.

~ Eraldo Banovac

In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.

~ Eraldo Banovac

The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Sages thought and taught,But men do what they want;Love, wisdom and tolerance won’t work at them,For they are great beasts of all.

~ Vinod Varghese Antony

There’s no reason to cry over spilled milk. People cannot change the things that have already happened.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Time runs independently of us, and we cannot comprehend the flow of time. Time is a category in itself.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Sometimes, to avoid obstacles, you must also avoid appellation.

~ Andy Harglesis

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

~ Herman Melville

A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.

~ Eraldo Banovac

A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.

~ Ashtavakra Gita

Desire and anger are objects of the mind, but the mind is not yours, nor ever has been. You are choiceless, awareness itself and unchanging - so live happily.

~ Ashtavakra Gita

This existence is just imagination. It is nothing in reality, but there is no non-being for natures that know how to distinguish being from non being.

~ Ashtavakra Gita

...our great modern error is the belief that we must invariably give up one thing in order to have another. But it is possible, for instance, to find comfort, pleasure, and beauty in food, clothing, and shelter. It is possible to find pleasure and beauty and even recreation in work. It is possible to have farms that do not waste and poison the natural world.

~ Wendell Berry

What sort of charge against old age is the nearness of death, when this is shared by youth?Yes, you will say; but a young man expects to live long; an old man cannot expect to do so.Well, the young man is a fool to expect it. For what can be more foolish than to regard the uncertain as certain, the false as true? An old man has nothing even to hope. ' Ah, but it is just there that he is in a better position than the young man, since what the latter only hopes he has obtained:The one wishes to live long; the other has lived long.And yet! what is 'long' in a man's life? For grant the utmost limit: let us expect an age like that of the king of the Tartessi, who reigned eighty years and lived a hundred and twenty.Nothing seems long in which there is any . last' , for when that arrives, then all the past has slipped away -only that remains which you have earned by virtue and righteous actions.Hours indeed, and days and months and years depart, nor does past time ever return, nor can the future be known.Whatever time each is granted for life, with that he is bound to be content.

~ A.c. Grayling

Guys, close your eyes.Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine she is dating a guy like you. Did you smile? No?Then change.

~ Chocolate Socrates

Love like a dog.As long as it’s been treated with kindness and respect a dog will love you. A dog doesn’t care about your age, sex, gender identity, orientation, religion, race or socioeconomic bracket. A dog doesn’t care if you’re skinny, have stretch marks or scars. A dog doesn’t care how many people you’ve slept with, what hardships you’ve had to overcome; and if you’re crying a dog will come put its little chin on your chest and love you regardless. A dog doesn’t let these things dictate to whom or how much it extends its heart. A dog just loves.Love like a dog.A dog never tries to play it cool, hard to get or shies away from showing how much it loves. A dog’s composure is never betrayed by its tail because it freely and without hesitation shows how ecstatic it is to see you every time you walk through the door. When a dog is around other dogs it doesn’t pretend that it doesn’t really love tennis balls. A dog loves what it loves and is never embarrassed about showing how it feels.Love like a dog.A dog is loyal to and would fiercely defend those whom it loves. “For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.” Life is not always easy. At times you will have to be brave. At times you will be hurt. But a dog will never leave you. Stay close. Be faithful. Protect your pack.Love like a dog.That is my advice to you. Love like a dog.

~ Oliver Tremble

A living philosophy entails a conscious act of awareness. Without a living philosophy to guide and support us, we are not living as receptive, thinking, and emotionally responsive human beings; we are merely surviving as people.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

All philosophic propositions, every attempt to think including all acts of oral or written articulation of an argument and metaphorically expressed ideas, are subject to the dynamics and limitations of human language. The spoken thought is only part of any philosophic message; the other part is unsaid because it is unsayable. The crux of any philosophic proposition reverberates in the echo of silence, the thought that lies in-between the lines.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come.

~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Do a bit research before you plan.

~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

So many of us hide from ourselves and we don't even know who we are and why were we here? All peoples will prove they are better and put fake masks on their own faces. Every people pretend herself what they actually not from inside. Afraid to show the reality and hide their best quality. You just have to learn to be yourself and what really makes you happy, or other things that are not important and what others think of you is not important at all.

~ Silentknight0

Be who your are, do not be what people want you to be

~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih