Quotes About Philosophy

Optimism is a belief and I adapt belief as a way of life.

It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer…

I constantly reminded myself with the fact that the world isn't about what's fair, but how you cope with what is unfair.

I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be.

¡Los suspiros son aire y van al aire!¡Las lágrimas son agua y van al mar!Dime, mujer, cuando el amor se olvida¿sabes tú adónde va?

Your Philosophy in Life Should be to Support others without expecting them To Support Back.

For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

Love is my philosophy, compassion is my journey and peace is my destination.

To be the body-mind or not to be the body-mind, this is the question.

I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.

What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?~ulquiorra

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

Personal associations are important, because everyone acquires something of the philosophy, the personality, and the mental

In truth, NO MAN KNOWS, and no man has ever known, what heaven or hell is like, nor does any man know if either place actually exists.

We live in a thought world, which is part of a thought universe.

Being a philosopher as well as a preacher, Dr. Gunsaulus recognized, as do all who succeed in life, that DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE is the starting point from which one must begin. He recognized, too, that definiteness of purpose takes on animation, life, and power when backed by a BURNING DESIRE to translate that purpose into its material equivalent.

The break consisted of my good fortune in meeting and gaining the cooperation of Andrew Carnegie. On that occasion Carnegie planted in my mind the idea of organizing the principles of achievement into a philosophy of success. Thousands of people have profited by the discoveries made in the twenty-five years of research, and several fortunes have been accumulated through the application of the philosophy. The beginning was simple. It was an IDEA which anyone might have developed.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

This philosophy is intended to enable those who master it to "sell" their way through life successfully, with the minimum amount of resistance and friction. Such a course, therefore, must help the student organize and make use of much truth which is overlooked by the majority of people who go through life as mediocres.

But remember that extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extreme selfishness; both are mistakes.

There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

Where the ordinary mind sees disaster and confusion, the mind of the philosopher sees the most perfect sequence of cause and effect, and where the materialist sees nothing but endless death, the mystic sees pulsating and eternal life.