Philosophy Quotes

If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner.

~ Amit Kalantri

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

~ Iris Murdoch

The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.

~ Susan Sontag

Relative truths can also be absolute.Relative absolute truths are like two people looking at the same coin, from two different sides, each sees a different truth and presumes they are looking at the same coin, and yet neither side can see the third side.

~ Caesar J. B. Squitti

Shout the truth, if you want to degoogle the google.” Says Bhutta

~ M.k. Bhutta

Only you can find yourself by losing yourself again and again in the deep darkness of your driving desires.

~ Debasish Mridha

Your driving desires will determine what you become.

~ Debasish Mridha

No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an Agnostic, or, God forbid, a Revisionist. But epicurean sounded so harmless it could not possibly imply that one was not an orthodox Marxist.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

~ Karl Marx

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

~ Slavoj Žižek

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

~ Douglas Preston

Aren't we lucky to be us?

~ Alan Alda

Luck always favors those who are bold.

~ Debasish Mridha

Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.

~ Will Durant

‎I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her pasture early in the Spring and boldly swims the river, a cold grey tide, twenty-five or thirty rods wide, swollen by the melted snow. It is the Buffalo crossing the Mississippi.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of thousands were scheming to take the next boat for the South Seas or the West Indies, or better still for Paris, from which they could scatter to Majorca, Corsica, Capri or the isles of Greece. Paris itself was a modern city that seemed islanded in the past, and there were island countries, like Mexico, where Americans could feel that they had escaped from everything that oppressed them in a business civilization. Or without leaving home they could build themselves private islands of art or philosophy; or else - and this was a frequent solution - they could create social islands in the shadow of the skyscrapers, groups of close friends among whom they could live as unconstrainedly as in a Polynesian valley, live without moral scruples or modern conveniences, live in the pure moment, live gaily on gin and love and two lamb chops broiled over a coal fire in the grate. That was part of the Greenwich Village idea, and soon it was being copied in Boston, San Francisco, everywhere.

~ Malcolm Cowley

Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thing is to be able in your soul to unite the meaning of all. To unite all? Pierre asked himself. No, not to unite. Thoughts cannot be united, but to harness all these thoughts together is what we need! Yes, one must harness them, must harness them!

~ Leo Tolstoy

I'm tired of being what everyone else wants.Tomorrow, I'm going to be what I want for a change.I'm going to be a rainbow.Now that's different!

~ Anthony T. Hincks

We only listen to what we want to hear.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?

~ Anthony T. Hincks

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

~ Debasish Mridha

If I want to be anything, I want to be a messenger of peace.

~ Debasish Mridha

If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the official philosophical answer is that free will doesn't exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of hour behavior are so complex that we can't trace them back. If you've got one line of dominoes knocking each other down, one by one, then you can always say, look, this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of dominoes that can be traced back in an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the causal chain begins. So you think, That domino fell because it wanted to... Even if there is no such thing as free will, we have to treat each other as if there were free will in order to live together in society.

~ Orson Scott Card

Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was itself enhanced if it were not totally taken for granted. Perhaps it was something to do with the whole philosophy of the world into which we were born. If we lived for ever, who would look forward eagerly to tomorrow? If there were no darkness, should we appreciate the sun? Warmth after cold, food after hunger, drink after thirst, sexual love after the absence of sexual love, the fatherly greeting after being away, the comfort and dryness of home after a ride in the rain, the warmth and peace and security of one’s fireside after being among enemies. Unless there was contrast there might be satiety.

~ Winston Graham

The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.

~ T.a. Uner

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

~ James Gleick

Patriotism is racism for the modern era.

~ Michelle Templet

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

Let my love show you the way and give you guidance in the moment of need.

~ Debasish Mridha

Open your heart, hear the blessings all around you singing songs of love.

~ Debasish Mridha

An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory.

~ Mike Klepper

To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest.

~ Amit Kalantri

The Master, by residing in the Tao,sets an example for all beings.Because he doesn't display himself,people can see his light.Because he has nothing to prove,people can trust his words.Because he doesn't know who he is,people recognize themselves in him.Because he has no goal in mind,everything he does succeeds.

~ Lao Tzu

When we have simplicity we have so much more freedom in every single aspect of our lives. Maybe it's a classic case of less is more? Less stress, less worries, more time, more happiness.

~ Evan Sutter

I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

~ Harper Lee

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Beauty is not in complexity but it's in simplicity.

~ Debasish Mridha

Everybody comes with prejudices, colored glasses on their eyes. Then they see everything colored according to their glasses. Yes, a few people come just like you, unprejudiced, without any idea gathered from yellow journalism.

~ Osho

It also appears to me that when prejudices persist obstinately, it is the fault of nobody so much as of those who make a point of proclaiming them insuperable, as an excuse to themselves for never joining in an attempt to remove them. Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share it themselves truckle to it, and flatter it, and accept it as a law of nature.

~ John Stuart Mill