Quotes About Philosophy

The ancient Vedic texts known as the Upanishads declare, "You are what your deepest desire is. As is your desire, so is your intention. As is your intention, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny." Our destiny ultimately comes from the deepest level of desire and also from the deepest level of intention. The two are intimately linked to each other.

But Buddha didn't teach that life hurts because of pain; it hurts because the cause of suffering hasn't been examined.

You are whatever your faith is.

We can never fully understand the how, where, and when of anything, even something as simple as boiling water. We have to surrender to uncertainty, while appreciating its intricate beauty. All

Where in Schrödinger's equation is the joy of being alive?

Unlike other religions in the world the Hindu religion does not claim any one prophet; it does not worship any one god; it does not subscribe to any one dogma; it does not believe in any one philosophic concept; it does not follow any one set of religious rites or performances; in fact, it does not appear to satisfy the narrow traditional features of any religion or creed. It may broadly be described as a way of life and nothing more.

God is real by any name you chose, or none at all.

La mente, y no el cerebro, es la fuente de la conciencia.

Siddhartha looked down at his arm and brushed away the film of dried dung that had settled on it. More dust flew up into the sunlight. I am just dust, he thought.

I'm not persuaded by atheists who claim to live cheerfully in a random universe. They aren't waking up every morning to say, "How wonderful, another day when nothing really has meaning.")

Don't focus on age," she says with a touch of impatience. "It doesn't exist.

So whatever is outside time and space is inconceivable, and unfiltered reality would probably blow the brain's circuits, or simply be blanked out.

If the elementary building blocks of matter and energy are conceptual, then the universe itself is bubbling up from a set of ideas or forms, too.

Jamás comprenderemos cabalmente el cómo, el dónde ni el cuándo de nada, ni siquiera de algo tan simple como el agua hirviendo. Debemos rendirnos a la incertidumbre y apreciar su belleza.

but the concepts of zero and one are human. Without us, they wouldn't exist.

Humans are in the ironic position of knowing for certain that we have a mind, while at the same time finding that our mind can't explain itself.

A prominent rabbi sent Einstein an exasperated telegram: "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid. Fifty words." Einstein replied, "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

Quiero conocer los pensamientos de Dios … el resto sólo son detalles. — Albert Einstein

A cierta edad- afirmó Lewis Thomas cierta vez -,está en nuestra naturaleza desgastarnos, caer en trastornos y morir y eso es todo.

What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul?

Although personal calling I sense—who am I? even if I am, I don't know.

And what does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

Devil and God are two sides of the same face.