Philosophy Quotes - Page 20

What we wish for, dream and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.

Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them "god for us" or "bad for us." The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our lives. The event doesn't make that determination- we do.

I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, chooses her in the end. But some part of him is always in the other world and he cannot abandon it. It’s a part of him, an essential part. All human beings have a sickness in their minds. That space is a part of them.

Keep learning, keep learning!

The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

we can't even control a blind man's desire to see the world by his own eye,philosophy is to see outside by inside.

It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an "illogical" world would look like.

Only those exceptional at mimicking others feel at ease in the world.

When it is imperative to make a vivid offering towards life then a simulated introspection for all possible dimensions may be endured to establish a relationship with external world and world within

The world carried on before we arrived. We make our entrance, adapt to our surroundings and join the chase to nowhere. We depart without fulfilment. The world carries on.

The most beautiful things in life happen, when they are least expected.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.

If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.