Quotes About Philosophy

Sanskrit describes five layers of self, or mind: Physical, feeling, perception, intention, and consciousness.

Asian philosophy and culture never endured an intellectual upheaval like the Cartesian split of mind and body that brought the so-called Enlightenment to the West. The consequent achievements of scientific method and the less fortunate by-products of secular self-interest together laid the groundwork, in Europe and America, for the personal psychology of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

The word buddha, however, simply means "awake" or "awakened." It does not refer to a particular historical person or to a philosophy or religion.

Simple living high thinking..!!

It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.

Your existence cannot be a mere stochastic accident.

Tiempo atrás los hombres buscaban la iluminación para escapar del espejismo del mundo. Hoy sostenían que sólo existía el espejismo.

He aprendido mucho en dos mil años, pero nada sobre ningún Dios, excepto que surgen, cambian, envejecen y mueren. Si hay algo más allá del universo, dudo que se interese por nosotros.

The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave way to cool, rationalistic classicism. Today that's being drowned in turn by a kind of neoromanticism. God knows where that will lead. I probably won't approve. Regardless, new generations grow up. We've no right to freeze them into our own mold. The universe is too wide.

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

You may be GOD,...............but I am an ATHIEST !

Pada akhirnya persoalan hidup adalah persoalan menunda mati, biarpun orang-orang yang bijaksana lebih suka mati sekali daripada berkali-kali.

Mengapa orang ini tak ramai-ramai lahir dan ramai-ramai mati? Aku ingin dunia ini seperti pasar malam

Animals are not supposed to have the power to reason and therefore don't care whether there is life after death. But imagine animals trying to cheer themselves up in the same way that our own ancestors did when faced with death, by believing that there is life after death. How would they resolve the problem that in the afterlife they might once more be eaten by man?

Kau suka berbicara tentang keindahan. Dimana keindahan suatu kekejaman?

Pengertian adalah hidup. Hidup adalah dihidupi dan menghidupi.

Philosophy is the child of sorrow

The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate.

Look not upon nature, for her name is fatal.- Proc. in Plat. Th. 143

For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen.

A question about the philosophy of knowledge and science..... Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can go through is mysterious. So why do some of us try to explain some issues of imagination, and thus depriving those issues of their ambiguity!

Baffle them with your silence! Shock them with your philosophy.

Better to be without dialectic rather than without thinking.

Not to survive apocalypse!! , But there are methodologies to compete seriously! So, please, don't ask Einstein?