Quotes About Philosophy

Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring.

But if our minds can make such Gods and if from the Gods we have made there flows such power, which is no more than a power resident within us, why cannot we employ that power directly?

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Any sage can do philosophy, but not every philosopher is a sage.

Not a single Buddha, bodhisattva, or shengren in Europe, but in Asia: all philosophers and saints? What is that probability?

Star Wars is Chinese Taoism.

The East is more inductive, while the West is more deductive.

The shengren is above philosophy and beyond religion. He is decisively not European. This will be read in a thousand years.

The shengren is the single most important concept in Chinese history.

la Filosofía Hermética es la única llave maestra que puede abrir las puertas a todas las enseñanzas ocultas.

We take great pleasure in presenting to the attention of students and investigators of the Secret Doctrines

But surely, she argued with herself, life was more than this relentless getting ahead? Surely, there was more to life than self-actualization and ambition and success? What was wrong with linking one's happiness to that of another human being? Why should fifty years of peak capitalism eradicate something that the Eastern philosophers had taught for thousands of years—that life is about interconnectedness, interdependence, and yes, even sacrifice?

Thubten Chodron

Buda era un profundo filósofo y psicólogo cuyas enseñanzas nos pueden impulsar a mejorar nuestras vidas. Uno no necesita considerarse budista para practicar estas técnicas. La auténtica práctica espiritual va más allá de los compartimentos de los "ismos". Como Su Santidad el Dalai Lama dice a menudo: "La compasión no es propiedad de ninguna religión ni de ningún credo".

We may mistakenly conclude, for example, that the source of our dissatisfaction and frustration is a particular intellectual view or opinion that we hold and that all we have to do to correct the situation is adopt a higher, more respectable philosophical position. But such a superficial approach never strikes at the root of our difficulties.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

the Collection of Aphorisms (sometimes referred to as the Tibetan Dhammapada).

Thupten Jinpa

However, six times throughout day and night I contemplate samsara's defects and feel disenchanted by it.

No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Platonic love is love from the neck up.

I like to say I don't believe in mystics . I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in destiny or kismet. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything .

convictions and beliefs! .. what do they have to do with religion!