Quotes About Philosophy

All new information comes from Tao. All old information came from Tao.

Space and time are bound together. Actually, they are more than bound together. Space and time are both manifestations of Tao's consciousness.

Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.

A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope.

Do you believe in chaos- in random, uncontrolled events, in the idea that anything can happen at any time without fixed laws governing it? If you believe that, you will always be in a state of fear, not knowing what will happen from one moment to the next. The fear might be small, but it is there. That fear results in a lack of security and a feeling of mistrust.

Now almost fifty years have passed since I discovered the I Ching, and I still read it regularly and use it as a guide. The wisdom of the I Ching is inexhaustible. As for the ability to obtain guidance from Tao, well, I don't know how anyone can get along without it.

Using only the tools of the physical world to find answers to our questions about life is like trying to unlock a door using a banana instead of a key or like using an equation to understand love or sympathy or a thought about Tao.

In order for there to be light, there must first exist non - light or total darkness. Nowhere in the Taoverse would there be light. No stars. Total darkness. Zero light. The blackest of the black. Therefore light exists in total darkness.

Everything that was created changes. But time was not created. Time does not change. Time does not " do " anything. Time is a word we use to describe what existence exists in.

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

I had gone back to being myself. But my self did not exist

Per il dolore, la felicità, l'amore non ci sono segni. E questo mi sembra di rara infelicità.

Scientists are in the strange position of being confronted daily by the indisputable fact of their own consciousness, yet with no way of explaining it.

Alors que les hommes généralement se contentent de croire, les philosophes veulent savoir ; mais, pour savoir, il faut juger, critiquer, mesurer, exclure, imaginer, bref effectuer un travail de l'esprit dont les religions et les idéologies permettent l'économie.

Selon la tradition, c'est lui qui aurait inventé le mot « philosophie » en disant que seuls les dieux ont droit au beau nom de sage (sophos en grec), l'homme, quant à lui, ne peut qu'aimer la sagesse (philo, en grec, signifie « aimer » et sophia, « sagesse »), tendre vers elle, s'efforcer de l'atteindre.

Pythagore - Selon la tradition, c'est lui qui aurait inventé le mot « philosophie » en disant que seuls les dieux ont droit au beau nom de sage (sophos en grec), l'homme, quant à lui, ne peut qu'aimer la sagesse (philo, en grec, signifie « aimer » et sophia, « sagesse »), tendre vers elle, s'efforcer de l'atteindre.

La vertu de ren, que l'on traduit par « humanité », est centrale dans la morale confucéenne.

La philosophie répond moins à la question de la nature des choses (la science se chargera de cette « physique ») qu'à celle du bien-vivre.

Etudiez comme si vous deviez vivre toujours ; vivez comme si vous devriez mourir demain - Thomas d'Aquin

Diotime expose les termes de ce qui sera appelé « dialectique ascendante » : l'amour se porte d'abord sur un beau corps, puis sur la beauté physique en général, puis sur la beauté de l'âme invisible, puis sur celle des Idées, puis sur l'Idée même du Beau.

La religion est, aux yeux de Lucrèce, une superstition qui plonge les hommes dans l'angoisse et le désespoir. La philosophie, elle, a une fonction libératrice.

It will require you to forsake nearly everything that it means to be a Jedi. But you have already begun down that path, I think. Your grief over the deaths of the Krim family does not speak of nonattachment.

GBeing on a spiritual path, or living according to one's faith, means that a person aligns his/her self to a set of principles and values different than the everyday waking consciousness of our modern culture.

They kept to themselves. We all had a 'live and let live' philosophy, so we didn't mix unless someone committed crimes in our territories. Karpatii, mage and humans were close. The others stayed away from us and from each other.