Quotes About Philosophy

la vida es puro ruido entre dos insondables silencios.

El calendario es un invento humano; el tiempo a nivel spiritual no existe...

El sabio es siempre alegre.

We are what we think. Our being emerges from our thoughts. Our thoughts construct the world," the monk told her telepathically.

Imi plac tesaturile, culorile, machiajul si rutina de a ma aranja in fiecare dimineata, cu toate ca majoritatea timpului il petrec inchisa in mansarda si scriind. Nu ma vede nimeni, dar ma vad eu spunea filozofic maica-mea, si nu se referea doar la aspectul fizic, ci si la trasaturile profunde de caracter si comportament.

Para un chino ilustre el evento más importante en la vida era su propio funeral.

Gerald G. Jampolsky, famoso psiquiatra y autor de más de veinte best sellers sobre psicología y filosofía, la aptitud para ser feliz está influenciada en un 45 % por genes y en un 15 % por las circunstancias, lo cual significa que el 40 % restante lo determinamos cada uno

How long does a man spend dying? What does it mean to say "for ever"? Pablo Neruda

It isn't for nothing that our motto is "By Right or by Force," a phrase that has always seemed particularly stupid to me.

La experiencia de ese año de enfermedad le infundió un ardiente deseo de vivir, como si el premio por el sufrimiento fuera haber descubierto la piedra filosofal, la esquiva sustancia de los alquimistas capaz de transformar el plomo en oro y rejuvenecer.

porque ela não acreditava que o mundo fosse um vale de lágrimas, mas, ao contrário, uma pilhéria de deus, e, por isso, seria estupidez levá-lo a sério.

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.

Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.

Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.

I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.