Philosophical Musings Quotes & Sayings

Ambition soars and also slithers — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Fear and anger, Yoda had often warned him, were slaves to the dark side. Vaguely, Luke wondered which side curiosity served. — Timothy Zahn

I blame God for all the good things that happened in my life to spite him I will be good to others — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed. — R.D. Ronald

I think LOVE. Love is what brings families together, and love is often what drives them apart. Love can act as both a fuel and an exterminator for fire, a cause of war, but also of peace. Love brings new souls to the family and removes old ones. Love is a chain of memories, like an old photo album of life- you never really can throw it away. — Chloe Gadsby-Jones

Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life. — Jay Woodman

Lies are living beings; once they get hold of you they never let go — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Knowing the true isolation of being marks the beginning of love for others. — Jack Sanger

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do. — Shannon Winslow

Wind waves on the lake break hard against the sharp rocks, but wash gently on sandy shores. — Tom Gillaspy

Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered. — Linda Collison

Such philosophical musings risk inviting depression or inefficiency. Better just to fix the problem and move on to the next one. It's all part of being a service provider at the end of the line. — Katrina Firlik

Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek. — R.D. Ronald

The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance; just tolerance. — Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

Sometimes the answer is in the question. — Cristina Smith

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based. — Michel Houellebecq

The ground shakes and she remembers the stories of dusty boys who lost their legs trying to jump the train to the other side. Legs made of dirt. Returned to dirt. But what a wonderful sound that had. "The other side." Worth losing one's legs for, losing one's entire body to reach there. The other side. — Ray Else

If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed. — Palle Oswald

Why would God create people with all these desires and curiosities and then punish them for trying to satisfy them? — Belle Blackburn

We were convinced of the inherent madness of codified inequity. All cooperation involves some measure of surrender. And coercion. But the alternative, being anarchy, is itself no worthy virtue. It is but an excuse for selfish aggression, and all that seeks justification from taking that stance is, each and every time, cold-hearted. Anarchists live in fear and long for death, because they despair of seeing in others the very virtues they lack in themselves. In this manner, they take pleasure in sowing destruction, if only to match their inner landscape of ruin. [ ... ] We rejected civilization, but so too we rejected anarchy for its petty belligerence and the weakness of thought it announced. By these decisions, we made ourselves lost and bereft of purpose. — Steven Erikson

Progress is heading in a forward direction and realizing what was behind is now your legacy! — K.C. Rhoads

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble
that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don't categorize things merely to simplify my understanding. I'd rather delve into the process of unlearning. — Nikhil Sharda

Hope without fulfillment is more cruel than despair — Geraldine Harris

No thought,no reflection,no analysis,no cultivation,no intention;let it settle itself.Relax "Tilopa — Tilopa

He had an intrusive gaze and quietly confident manner, that seemed to strip away the layers of protective deception Scott would usually adopt around strangers. — R.D. Ronald

Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees. — R.D. Ronald

People are no damn good. — William Steig

All the most fascinating subjects leave...no...shadows. But we keep watching and waiting just in case. — R.J. Askew

Whether we are men dreaming we are butterflies or butterflies dreaming we are men, the one truth is that all life is an illusion. We are all wandering shades. — Jenifer Mohammed

Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our? — Aysha Taryam

The older we get, the more we become ourselves. — Alan Andrews

But hippies always forget that old Gaea can be one heartless bitch. Spend a little time wandering lost in the woods as she attacks you and tries to reduce you to fertilizer." She snorted. "You won't be singing kumbayas very long." She paused to make sure Janus would get the point. "In this world, Gaea's the predator and we're the prey. — Jenifer Mohammed

Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage. — Palle Oswald

The Anticipation is annihilated by the act — K.C. Rhoads

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls
when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old] — Kresley Cole

Leftie loosely is the way
to relax a set old screw
as rightie tightly thinks
new bullshit to pursue — Cornelia "Connie" DeDona

The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think. — Salley Vickers

This book, then, does not consist of academic philosophical musings. Rather, it is a work of oral literature, addressed to people at war. How strange it must have seemed to turn on the radio, which was every day bringing news of death and unspeakable destruction, and hear one man talking, in an intelligent, good-humored, and probing tone, about decent and humane behavior, fair play, and the importance of knowing right from wrong. Asked by the BBC to explain to his fellow Britons what Christians believe, C. S. Lewis proceeded with the task as if it were the simplest thing in the world, and also the most important. — C.S. Lewis

The polarized world: We're all in it together vs Me and Mine and to hell with everyone else. — William Hageman

No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

If you don't know history,
you don't know anything.
Edward Johnston — Richard Puz

But no matter what I do, it will always get me, bother me, and you know what this is, what gets me, and will continue to get me throughout my existence? It's that we as humans will never know the results of the other choice. What would have happened if I chose that instead of this? Naturally, the results or consequences would probably be different, perhaps very different. More importantly, would the other option have been the better choice? We will never know. I will never know. And this will always get me. — Jack Serv

The words are not good for the secret meaning, everything always becomes a bit different, as soon as it is put into words, gets distorted a bit, a bit silly - yes, and this is also very good, and I like it a lot, I also very much agree with this, that this what is one man's treasure and wisdom always sounds like foolishness to another person. — Hermann Hesse

If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate. — R.D. Ronald

Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge. — Kilroy J. Oldster

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness — Sophocles

It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

The world of nature, at once a vision of exquisite beauty and an arena of brutal savagery, is a dynamic system of delicate balances. — S. Bradley Stoner

Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them. — R.D. Ronald

Most things don't stay the way they are very long. — Richard Ford

Everyone's broken, one way or another. — Max Barry

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Your greatest adventure is written inside of you — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another. — Bill Murray

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

They are all very serious people with stern expressions on their faces. They discuss nothing but important matters and like to philosophize a great deal, while at the same time everyone can see that the workers are detestably fed, sleep without suitable bedding, thirty to forty in a room with bedbugs everywhere, the stench, the dampness, and the moral corruption ... Obviously all our fine talk has gone on simply to hoodwink ourselves and other people as well. Show me the day nurseries that they're talking about so much about. And where are the libraries? Why, they just write about nurseries and libraries in novels, while in fact not a single one even exists. What does exist is nothing but dirt, vulgarity, and a barbarian way of life ... I dislike these terribly serious faces, they frighten me, and I'm afraid of serious conversations, too. We'd be better off if we all would just shut up for a while! — Anton Chekhov

My boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality
just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust. — Alberto Moravia

Most things dopn't stay the way they are very long. — Richard Ford

NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to manipulate language to expose the truth. — Jenifer Mohammed

Mme. Bonacieux looked at the young man, restrained for a minute by a last hesitation; but there was so much ardor in his eyes, such persuasion in his voice, that she felt herself constrained to confide in him. Besides, she found herself in circumstances where everything must be risked for the sake of everything. — Alexandre Dumas

But that is the way of life, and that was but one of the first times, among no few to come, that I was taught a useful lesson about how appearances trump truth, and how villains hide their vices behind masks of piety, honour, and decency. And that to denounce evildoers without proof, attack them with weapons, trust blindly in reason or justice, is often the fastest road toward one's own perdition, while the scoundrels who use influence or money as a shield remained untouched. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

For the philosopher, language, thought, and passion are the same. Ideas are personal to a philosopher; they express their human passion and articulate their novel ideas in language. Ideas are more than mere concepts, trifles that the philosophical mind toys with. Ideas provide both the structure and inner vitality that holds great thinkers' conceptual structure together. — Kilroy J. Oldster

They said, Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You? — Qur'an 2 30

I have begun to wonder where I came from. The person I am now, this fumbling, stumbling supplicant ... was I built on the foundations of my old life, or did I rise from the grave a blank state? How much of me is inherited, and how much is my own creation? Questions that were once just idle musings have begun to feel strangely urgent. Am I firmly rooted to what came before? Or can I choose to deviate? — Isaac Marion

Sleep like you can never be dead
Dream as if you have a soul inside your head — Munia Khan

Some people build houses others build people; of the two I would rather be of the latter — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

The most formidable thing standing between your dreams and you ; is you — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

It's a cold sun that casts long shadows. — Christopher Carosa

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. — Fakeer Ishavardas

A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence
-rassool jibraeel snyman — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman