Quotes About Philosophy

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

The rose called by any other name would smell as sweet.

there rose this man Krishna, and in the Gita he tries to reconcile the ceremony and the philosophy of the priests and the people.

When you give something to a man and expect nothing — do not even expect the man to be grateful — his ingratitude will not tell upon you, because you never expected anything, never thought you had any right to anything in the way of a return. You gave him what he deserved; his own Karma got it for him; your Karma made you the carrier thereof.

The universe itself can never be the limit of our satisfaction. That is why the miser gathers more and more money, that is why the robber robs, the sinner sins, that is why you are learning philosophy. All have one purpose. There is no other purpose in life, save to reach this freedom. Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

The Yogi says, religion is practical if you know first why misery exists. All the misery in the world is in the senses. Is

The world is neither good nor bad; the world is the world. The

Krishna is the higher Self, or God. He sees through the argument at once. In this case [the motive] is weakness.

There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar.

If [you think] thought cannot be manufactured, stop eating for twenty days and see how you feel. Begin today and count. ... Even thought is manufactured by food. There is no doubt about it.

Swami Vivekananda

Life is itself religion.

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It is true that the Upanishads have this one theme before them: "????????? ???? ???????? ???????? ???????? ???? - What is that knowing which we know everything else?

Matter is the permanent possibility of sensations," said John Stuart Mill. It is only the suggestion that is outside.

On the philosophic side the disciples of the Great Master dashed themselves against the eternal rocks of the Vedas and could not crush them, and on the other side they took away from the nation that eternal God to which every one, man or woman, clings so fondly. And the result was that Buddhism had to die a natural death in India. At the present day there is not one who calls oneself a Buddhist in India, the land of its birth. But

Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. Then realise what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhists cannot stand without the brain and philosophy of the Brahmins, nor the Brahmin without the heart of the Buddhist.

Here it may be said that these laws as laws may be without end, but they must have had a beginning. The Vedas teach us that creation is without beginning or end.

Philosophy of course is the essence of every religion; mythology explains and illustrates it by means of the more or less legendary lives of great men, stories and fables of wonderful things, and so on; ritual gives to that philosophy a still more concrete form, so that every one may grasp it — ritual is in fact concretised philosophy.