Inspiring Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

Inner turbulence leads to anger. — Lailah Gifty Akita

God hears and answers every prayer in His sacred time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Live your life without any fear. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Philosophy is unbelievably inspiring to me. — Rodney Yee

Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you. — Abhijit Naskar

The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization. — Abhijit Naskar

Our heads are full of comparisons, needs for approval and attention, a desire to be at other places, imagining things could be better there and thus hating our reality.
We are the only ones to blame for our own suffering.
We hurt ourselves every time we think of how other people should behave according to our standards and then suffer when they appear to be individuals; every time we open a book with so many expectations about it from what we've heard and hoped it to be, and then close it in disappointment, realizing it's something totally different (maybe beautiful, inspiring and challenging, but nothing that met our expectations). — Lidiya K.

Blind faith is not real religion my friend. — Abhijit Naskar

Humanism is the purest expression of your soul as a human. It has no God to be concerned with, except for the living Gods, that is the humans. It has no doctrine to abide by, except for the natural doctrine of love and benevolence. That's the religion we need my friend. — Abhijit Naskar

Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other. — Abhijit Naskar

He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. Why might this be interesting, or even inspiring? Perhaps because unhappiness can stem from only having one perspective to play with. — Alain De Botton

Your dreams will define your destiny. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My question to the atheist is, do you want an atheist world or a peaceful world? And to the believer, do you want a religious world or a peaceful world? Religious orientation doesn't define peace, but the answer here may define one's true nature. — Abhijit Naskar

Whether you call yourself a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu or an Atheist, if you have kindness in your heart and compassion in your act, you are on the right path of religion. — Abhijit Naskar

We do not know what happens when we sleep. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What would life be without challenges? — Lailah Gifty Akita

What you dream of, you will possess. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Divine self is holy being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other. — Thaddeus Golas

One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner ... and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth. — W.E.B. Du Bois

We need God's great-grace in all spheres of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Music is breath of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is story, until I realized life as sacred. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The lack of forgiveness and ingratitude leads unhappiness — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Daring life, optimistic living. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep encouraging one another with affectionate love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Live a fuller sacred life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't want to take away anybody's religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means. — Abhijit Naskar

Psychologically speaking, far from being worthless, a system is indeed necessary, for any kind of human endeavor. A structure aids in the mind's endeavor of learning. But the moment the mind becomes dependent on the system and starts trusting the system more than the internal faculties of the mind, the very element of education fades away from the system. — Abhijit Naskar

Why should i expect yes cos everything i get no — Kjiva

Every day is spectacular sacred time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self. — Abhijit Naskar

There is always exception to every rule. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How would it alter Juliet's love perception to learn the sea is but a rounded jug of water? Would her sensuous analogy turned simple simile unveil to her the limits of herself? Or would she forget the ocean, that deplorable casket, and turn on the true bottomless tumbler, the only running tap: the sky? It may have lost the title 'heavens' when its gods were dethroned, but its infinity reigns. So long as you walk, it reigns. So long as I talk and you listen, there's a voice and ears to keep it active, moving, and reason to say: look! infinity lives. And when we and the other consciousnesses pass, though it in part dies with us, still it reigns. It will, in a sense, plod on, like a lifeless coffin through its own space, sails set for nothing, unstoppable when trailing its fabric. — Richard Ronald Allan

You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion. — Abhijit Naskar

Be brave, be great! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Praying is a pure action. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Time is a valuable wealth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Why do people only understand what they want to ...
... instead of what they could or should understand? — Beatrice James

Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware. — Abhijit Naskar

Never lose hope, for all the interweaved strings
will soon straighten out. — Aditi Dufare

Life is a great wonder. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life must be live daringly. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A handful of lion-hearts can wake the whole world up. — Abhijit Naskar

Live a passionate life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Mistakes are stepping stones for great achievement. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Having a rather pessimistic outlook on life makes for the best philosophical discussions; distress is the only real reason to question something; comfort often leads to the inability to change. — Moryah DeMott

First visualize your goal in your mind. Then have a leap of faith, and let your passion guide you throughout the process. — Abhijit Naskar

If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy. — Abhijit Naskar

All answers that you seek can only be found within. — Abhijit Naskar

First know the Self and then talk of social reformation. — Abhijit Naskar

When phobia starts to build up in the psyche of thinking humanity against a part of its own kind, there is nothing more primordial and gruesome than that, especially when we are talking about a species that is supposedly the most intelligent one on Earth. Phobias recorded in DSM do not make a person lesser human, but Islamophobia does indeed define whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman. — Abhijit Naskar

Often we suffer because we don't realize what's essential.
We may want to be rich, but the rich are lonely.
We see all those people on TV that have won the lottery and want to be at their place, but studies show that they are even more miserable after having won the big check. They don't really know what to do with all that money, take poor decisions on how to spend them, change themselves and their friends don't see them in the same way. — Lidiya K.

Life is a daring faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Success come to those people who never ever doubt themselves! — Avijeet Das

Be naive and curious. That's all you need to become a scientist. — Abhijit Naskar

The greatest blessing is the gift of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am loving.
I am caring.
I am inspiring.
I am daring.
I am always kind.
I have peace of mind.
I am worthy of trust.
I am true and just.
I am compassionate.
I am passionate.
I am a seeker.
I am a giver.
I am very simple.
I am an example. — Debasish Mridha

Ideal is the one, who knows the self. — Abhijit Naskar

Praying leads to purity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Love begets faith.
Faith begets courage.
Courage begets strength.
Strength begets positive thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Prosthetics can fix physical disabilities. But no prosthetic can fix an amputated spirit. So, don't let the society devoid you from your own spirit. Be brave and upright, and delve into even the depth of doom to achieve your goal. — Abhijit Naskar

Religion without reason is like making love without love. — Abhijit Naskar

Miranda Lambert is actually mixing the singer-songwriter philosophy with the commercial country [mindset]. And I find it just inspiring. My hat's off completely, because she's pulling it off, and I couldn't figure out a way to do it. — Allison Moorer

In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter. — Abhijit Naskar

You must know the rules of the game, to play better. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish to be a product not a consumer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a fascinating, inspiring, and wonderfully well written story of one man's quest to solve a problem no one thought could be solved: the scourge of inner city gang violence This is a vitally important work that has the potential to usher in a new era in policing. — John Seabrook

Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them. — Abhijit Naskar

One who has just learnt a foreign language, constantly resorts, while talking, to words belonging to that language in order to make a show of his or her achievement. But one who knows the language well, seldom uses it when speaking in his or her own mother tongue. Such is the case with those who are well advanced in religion. — Abhijit Naskar

I do not believe that an "impulse
to knowledge" is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument.But whoever considers the fundamental impulses of man with a view to determining how far they may have here acted as INSPIRING GENII (or as demons and cobolds), will find that they have all practiced philosophy at one time or another, and that each one of them would have been only too glad to look upon itself as the ultimate end of existence and the legitimate LORD over all the other impulses. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You ought to recognise your special talent, for your specific purpose. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love today, it is a sacred time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person. — Pope John Paul II

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Blessed is the society that has oldies. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human. — Abhijit Naskar

God is awe-inspiring. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith. — Abhijit Naskar

What would I have done without books? — Lailah Gifty Akita

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Every true scientist is a philosopher, but not every philosopher is a scientist. — Abhijit Naskar

Dreams are divine thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing. — Abhijit Naskar

A gentle spirit, a kind heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The paradox of life; I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair. — Lailah Gifty Akita

By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better. — Debasish Mridha

This moment is our greatest treasure. We cannot replay the past events. We have no control over future events. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am inclined to trust you. You shouldn't be like that with another man, not ever; but I can't help it. I felt it strongly from the instant I heard your voice; and though I thought momentarily that it would falter, it didn't. It's still here. You see, the essence of trust is not knowing a person's motive; it's knowing what isn't. It's a simple process of trial and error that gets you to the heart of a man; and once that soft voice and those light feet of yours got to moving I saw in you no measure of ill intent. — Richard Ronald Allan

Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism. — Abhijit Naskar

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized. — Mark Rowlands

If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love. — Abhijit Naskar

If you have assimilated even one idea and made it your life, you have more education than any person who has got by heart the entire Library of Congress. — Abhijit Naskar

Pray daily for your family. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Scientific Religion is compatible with Science and in fact, they enrich each other. That's because scientific religion is simply the realization of divinity within one's heart. Therefore, Science and Scientific Religion smoothen each other's path of progress. While on the contrary, far from being compatible with Science, Theoretical Religion consistently tries to impede the development of human society. Moreover, being rigidly based on bookish doctrines, it keeps making efforts to drag the human society back to the Stone Age.
I am afraid, if you don't act now, the relentless battle between Theoretical Religions will turn this beautiful planet which we call home, into a barren wasteland. — Abhijit Naskar

Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times. — Abhijit Naskar

You ought to dare great things. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books. — Abhijit Naskar