Quotes About Philosophy

Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

There is no stable self that is carried along from one moment to the next.

viable path to God

The illusion of free will is itself an illusion.

How could this next thought define your subjectivity at all?

the disparity between Eastern and Western spirituality resembles that found between Eastern and Western medicine—with the arrow of embarrassment pointing in the opposite direction

A rational approach to ethics becomes possible once we realize that questions of right and wrong are really questions about happiness and suffering of sentient creatures

The link between religion and "morality"—so regularly proclaimed and so seldom demonstrated—is fully belied here, as it is wherever religious dogma supersedes moral reasoning and genuine compassion.

spirituality is not just important for living a good life; it is actually essential for understanding the human mind.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them. If

Saint Augustine

Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

Resolve to know the laws of nature. Follow them in all circumstances; let them shape you; be guided by their perfect wisdom. —Epictetus, Greek philosopher

The two greatest men who ever lived—Jesus and Socrates—were both hoboes." It

Stoicism doesn't mean repressing emotion and shunning pleasure, I learned, but—in essence—focusing on what is in our power and letting go of everything we can't control.

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Knowledge squared is wisdom, and wisdom squared is virtue.

I hate to see rivalry develop within our company when it becomes a personal thing and our folks aren't working together and supporting one another. Philosophically, we have always said, Submerge your own ambitions and help whoever you can in the company. Work together as a team.

At Wal-Mart, if you have some important business problem on your mind, you should be bringing it out in the open at a Friday morning session called the merchandising meeting or at the Saturday morning meeting, so we can all try to solve it together. But while we're doing all this work, we like to have a good time. It's sort of a "whistle while you work" philosophy

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism …

Language is the dress of thought.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.