Quotes About Philosophy

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Yes, I believe in God, but I don't perform a daily puja. I don't have any gurus. Ek baat hai,destiny, koi cheez hai.

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

I spend a lot of time thinking of the Hereafter - each time I enter a room I wonder what I'm here after.

Life itself is a quotation.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Language is the dress of thought.

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Reductionism is merciless.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.