Quotes About Philosophy

I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.

experienced a bout of atheism. With adolescent self-importance, I wondered why God would allow all this to happen to a fourteen-year-old girl. When

So instead of asking the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?" perhaps the better question is "Why do good people think bad things can even happen?" Bad is nothing but a judgment call, a judgment call we're not qualified to make. Just like American Idol hasn't requested your services next to JLo and Keith Urban, you aren't qualified to judge what is good and bad.

Our ideas of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him." —THOMAS MERTON, CHRISTIAN MYSTIC

Cât e de trist s? fii om È™i s? înÈ›elegi viaÈ›a mai puÈ›in chiar decât lighionanele.

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

Why be elated by material profit?" Father replied. "The one who pursues a goal of evenmindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that man arrives penniless in this world, and departs without a single rupee.

The life and teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda are described in his Autobiography of a Yogi. An award-winning documentary film about his life and work, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, was released in October 2014.

The atomic structure of matter was well known to the ancient Hindus. One of the six systems of Indian philosophy is Vaisesika, from the Sanskrit root visesas, "atomic individuality." One of the foremost Vaisesika expounders was Aulukya, also called Kanada, "the atom-eater," born about 2800 years ago.

The six orthodox (Vedas-based) systems are Sankhya, Yoga, Vedanta, Mimamsa, Nyaya, and Vaisesika. Readers of a scholarly bent will delight in the subtleties and broad scope of these ancient formulations as summarised in English in A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. I, by Prof. Surendranath Dasgupta (Cambridge Univ. Press.) 9

To prevent the spread of evil, sometimes righteous war is even necessary. You cannot preach nonviolence and cooperation to a wild tiger, for he will destroy you even before you can expound your philosophy. Some human perpetrators of evil are similarly unresponsive to reason.

No habiendo podido los hombres remediar la muerte la miseria y la ignorancia, han imaginado, para ser felices, no pensar en absoluto en ellas.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

I don't know what I am, but I wouldn't want a faith that couldn't handle facts.

Achilles lives in the present. He remembers the past, not without regret, but increasingly without resentment. He rarely, if ever, thinks about the future, because there is no future. It's amazing how easily he's come to accept that. His life rests like a dandelion clock on the palm of his open hand, a thing so light the merest breath of wind can carry it away.

Zijn dood is door de goden bepaald. Nu wijst het hem elke ochtend alleen maar op de kostbaarheid van het leven dat hem binnenkort zal worden afgenomen.

We have to die, we don't have to worship it.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

The imprint of Dachau branded me indelibly and caused me to suffer the miscarriage of my hopeful philosophy. If man was good, then Dachau could never have happened. Simple as that.

Everything is sorrow for the wise.

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

Explain to me again, he begged, why we are here. She had told him once before; it had been like listening to a vivid, improbable dream.

Dimon was in his best Warren Buffett–inspired investor communication style: full, open disclosure, underscoring the risks involved, but also articulating the philosophy and reasons behind his decisions.

Reincarnation offers a better justification of evil than anything monotheism can offer, but it does so by blaming the victim and sanctifying the status quo.