Philosophy Quotes

We should keep in mind that there are always more truths to know, and we will know more as we evolve. Being faithful to what we already know is the key that opens the door to higher truths.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

The purpose of each incarnation is the transformation \ spiritual development of the individual. To the extent our day-to-day activities become harmonious with this purpose, that much peace and happiness we can experience

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

When we know our true nature, especially the functioning of the mind, we stop being judgmental and become an inspiration and support to others.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

Whether you practice a traditional religion or a universal version of spirituality, it is necessary to keep an open mind for learning and growing.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

By engaging with film illusions both actively and passively – as I attempt to do in this book – we strengthen the capacity of our minds to reason, imagine and think through ideas in a way unrestrained by some static conception of objective Truth. In so doing, the nihilistic gap existing between the real world and the whole variety of film worlds perhaps widens, but it also serves to offer a free, open space into which our interpretations may spill, mingle and propagate in uninhibited, nihilistic liberty.

~ John Marmysz

Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen, you just had to feel something.

~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

One gets the sense that, for Deleuze, the cinema of the movement-image has been fully realized while that of the time-image is emergent. Comparatively speaking, there are few pure examples of films where direct images of time predominate. Mixed or hybrid examples are more common.

~ D. N. Rodowick

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

~ Stanley Kubrick

In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.

~ John Marmysz

I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Its been enough enjoying now, let's begin achieving.

~ Amit Kalantri

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

~ Emma Goldman

Be brave. Be kind. Be simple. Above all, be crazy with love.

~ Debasish Mridha

If you are brave enough to empty yourself, then life will fill you again and again.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross.

~ F.k. Preston

Drink from the cup of life, you will be fulfilled.Yet...drink from the milk container in the fridge,and your wife will make you wish that you had drunk from the cup of life.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.

~ Amit Kalantri

[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.

~ John Chrysostom

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

~ John Leslie

When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

When you run with the bulls,it's no use walking.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

The act of running is simple, one foot in front of the other. The art of becoming a runner is achieved through a new mindset and commitment to change, especially if it’s new to you. It’s tough, challenging, painful, sometimes lonely, regularly uncomfortable and often excruciating…but the rewards are second to none.

~ Terry Lander

Never pursue happiness, just create the happiness inside you.

~ Debasish Mridha

Never pursue happiness, just create it inside you.

~ Debasish Mridha

Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?

~ Debasish Mridha

Act to create beauty without expecting results.

~ Debasish Mridha

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~ Kamil Ali

To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Diversity of opinion in religious belief and its mode is not incompatible with equal possession of the essentials of pure faith, nor at variance with the divine purpose. If an analogy exists between the growth we observe in the vegetable kingdom and that of the intellectual, we should expect to find the same variety in the expression of human belief that we seek in the development of tree and flower. Every tree is not an oak, nor every flower a rose, but each tree and flower is the expression in form and colour of its own inner life. In the same manner the mind was intended to be free to develop according to its own light, and any attempt to coerce it into a defined groove is an interference with the natural order of things. To condemn those who in matters of religion do not conform to our standards is, therefore, as unreasonable as to find fault with an oak tree because it is not an elm.

~ John Daniel

For peace, let us teach the humanity, tolerance and nonviolence.

~ Debasish Mridha

For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

~ Debasish Mridha

If we have no evidence of what happens after life, then there are infinite logical possibilities. Since there is only one kind of nothing, that means the chances of the being no afterlife is one in infinity. Therefore the only logical philosophy is that there is an afterlife, I just don't know what it is.

~ Aidan Crowe

...the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death.

~ Socrates Trans. G.m.a. Grube

Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.

~ Saahil Prem

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

~ William James

Let happiness bloom. In the caring love,In the softness of your tender voice,In the nonjudgmental love,In the beauty and pureness of a smile.

~ Debasish Mridha

How dreadful boredom is — how dreadfully boring; I know no stronger expression, no truer one, for like is recognized only by like… I lie prostrate, inert; the only thing I see is emptiness, the only thing I live on is emptiness, the only thing I move in is emptiness. I do not even suffer pain… Pain itself has lost its refreshment for me. If I were offered all the glories of the world or all the torments of the world, one would move me no more than the other; I would not turn over to the other side either to attain or to avoid. I am dying death. And what could divert me? Well, if I managed to see a faithfulness that withstood every ordeal, an enthusiasm that endured everything, a faith that moved mountains; if I were to become aware of an idea that joined the finite and the infinite.

~ Søren Kierkegaard