Monistic Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop. — Monica Lewinsky

And then I imagine the look on her face when I tell her I'm bipolar. — Katy Evans

A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it. — John Hagee

They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it away. What we needed was someone who bled ... mother's big enough, wide enough for us to hide in ... mother's who would breathe for us when we could not breathe anymore, who would fight for us, who would kill for us, die for us. — Janet Fitch

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business. — Charlton Heston

Someone who's easily enticed by saying, your life will become easier... is completely useless. -Takashiro — Hotaru Odagiri

We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false. — Jorge Luis Borges

Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole. — Bruce Lee

Dualism is the closest human feeling, but it is not necessarily the highest human philosophy. On the contrary, all great philosophies have been monistic. Man experiences the world dualistically, but monism is the essence of all human thinking. Philosophy disagrees with dualism. However, this fact does not mean too much, because life, being superior to thought, may not be judged by it. In reality, since we are human beings, we are living two realities. We can deny these two worlds, but we cannot escape from them. Life does not depend too much on our understanding of it. — Alija Izetbegovic

If you try to grasp Zen in movement, it goes into stillness. If you try to grasp Zen in stillness, it goes into movement. It is like a fish hidden in a spring, drumming up waves and dancing independently. — Linji Yixuan

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor ... I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end. — Shane Claiborne

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. — John Muir

Every second I spend waiting,
Drags me closer to this grave.
I'm not alone.
No, I'm just on my own. — Tegan Quin

We suck at talking."
"I know."
"Want to make out instead? — Jay McLean

With him died a story
That will not be retold:
How, forsaking glory,
Achilles grows old
While Hector dusts his trophies
Behind high walls-
For in his unsung strophes
Troy never falls — R.S. Gwynn

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something. — Patrick Stump