Philosophy Quotes
I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now
Willie NelsonWillie Nelson If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.
Thomas MertonThomas Merton The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Bertrand RussellBertrand Russell You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for Him: in the heart of a true lover.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
Evelyn WaughEvelyn Waugh We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
James JoyceJames Joyce The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
MenciusMencius What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
Swami VivekanandaSwami Vivekananda Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
Phil McGrawPhil McGraw The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
Sam HarrisSam Harris The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald