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Quotes About Philosophy

Nothing exists unconditionally, even not one, with oneself.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Only three visionary and golden figures were born on the soil of present Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, and Muhammad Iqbal, the national poet, philosopher, and the thinker of Pakistan and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the founder of the constitution and the hero of atomic energy.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Philosophically, Quotes absorb a sea of meaning; whereas, an insightful swimmer swims down into the bottom and fetches visionary diamonds of context, which aspire and inspire the hearts and minds of readers.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The human and its humanity stand on a higher level than any religion since the human and its humanity was first on this planet before religions became the rules of life, without that religions collapse.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The reason is that there is no reason The issue is that there is no issue
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The sin exhibits the believing in religion and religion in a context and concept of spirituality, requires not the evidence; however, devotion only, which prevails science and all materialistic subjects and objects. As a fact, believing is itself evidence, in multiple ways.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates Each life appears and lives, carrying the process of the exam naturally; it never stays unexamined since life is itself an exam, and has worth, as in its scope and dimension. - Ehsan Sehgal
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Thoughts and feelings constitute, as two sides of one coin with different images.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Thoughts do not need to be native but universal.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Those who love seek a philosophy and, because of this, are fond of solitude.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Aquí estoy yo, viejo...¿No fuisteis vos quien me dijo una vez que yo era hijo del cielo y de la tierra con un cuerpo sano? Aquí está ese hijo. ¿Por qué tenemos que contar con la suerte?
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
He looked over the side of the boat, at the swirling blue water. It was deep here, infinitely deep, and alive with what seemed to be eternal life. But water had no fixed, determined form. Was it not because man had a fixed, determined form that he cannot possess eternal life? Does not true life begin only when tangible form has been lost? (Musashi---the Soul of the Deep)
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
He tratado de hacer que fluyera el agua por donde creía que debería hacerlo y obligar a la tierra a permanecer donde me parecía que debería estar. Pero no ha servido de nada, y no es de extrañar. El agua es agua, la tierra es tierra. Yo no puedo cambiar su naturaleza. Lo que debo hacer es ponerme al servicio del agua y ser un protector de la tierra.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
To think that a man Has but fifty years to live under heaven. Surely this world Is nothing but a vain dream. Living but one life, Is there anything that does not decay?
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
You'll find, my friend, that in the gutters of this floating world, much of the trash consists of fallen flowers.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
You can't get sentimental about houses. Or bodies. They're just, I don't know, the Tupperware of the soul.
~ Eileen Pollack
science, as good as it is with how, isn't equipped to deal with why.
~ Eileen Wilks
Ragnar est communiste et ne s'en cache pas: «soit on est communiste, soit on est con.»
~ Einar Már Guðmundsson
According to yoga philosophy, the human personality is a constant interplay of these three elements – inertia, energy, and harmony. All three are always present, but one tends to be dominant at any given time – in a day, throughout a stage of life, over a life itself
~ Eknath Easwaran
When Gandhi was observing his day of silence, someone once asked him for a message. He just wrote, "My life is my message.
~ Eknath Easwaran
But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself.
~ Elaine Dundy
We should follow our own humour more in dying than in any other business.
~ Elaine Fantham
The ideal personality is embodied, in Mead's words, in "every thread of the social fabric–in the care of the young child, the games the children play, the songs the people sing, the political organization, the religious observance, the art and the philosophy." Other traits are ignored, discouraged, or if all else fails, ridiculed. What is the ideal in our culture?
~ Elaine N. Aron