Quotes About Philosophy

If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai.

That's all anyone has, and it's always brief, although, of course, some people believe they have a past where they can accumulate things and a future where they will accumulate still more. By the way, speaking of the present moment, do you masturbate a lot?

Why am I unhappy? The question carries with it the virus that will destroy everything.

The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.

Everything is permitted, if everything is accepted.

El sabio es sabio porque ama. El loco es loco porque piensa que puede entender el amor.

Pianos should never go out of tune. The true sin is something different than what we've been taught; the true sin is living so far removed from absolute harmony. That is more powerful than the truths and lies we tell every day. I

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of life.

die wahre Erfahrung von Freiheit: das Wichtigste auf der Welt zu haben, ohne es zu besitzen.

Suggestions for further reading Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem; Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones; Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha; Deepak Chopra, God: A Story of Revelation; Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet; Lawrence Kushner, Kabbalah: A Love Story; C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity; Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith; Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad

If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?

Buddhist sutra, the Tripitaka.

and when the hour is come that has been set for each of us before ever we can walk or talk, then what need of mourning?

Shikataganai, she added. It can't be helped.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.

I don't hate people, i assume they are dead!

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.