Philosophical Quotes - Page 4

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.

Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algún día. (...) Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir. Por eso nosotros, para evolucionar necesitamos la muerte.

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.

... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of our material world are not the real problem; it is our own spiritual awareness and philosophical wisdom that is lagging behind.

I do, I am

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

I’ve always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction.

Life, wherever it leads,
Will always be the same,
It begs for the best of you.

It’s not really outstanding when you’re standing out
Outcry is the only outburst,if you can’t shout

I had everything summed up in a nutshell unfortunately I lost the nut.

If you forget who you've become remember who you are

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

Three essential keys (FAITH, HOPE and LOVE) will open the Heavens door.

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard.

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.

What if he could see this, his own skull, yellow and eroded? Two centuries old. Would he still speak? Would he speak, if he could see it, the grinning, aged skull? What would there be for him to say, to tell the people? What message could he bring?

What action would not be futile, when a man could look upon his own aged, yellowed skull?

‎"We live in a world where those things that we never imagine could ever do something, did the best.