Philosophical Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,
Eternal Wisdom can never die ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

Exile from society allows person to disengage from meaningless activities and develop conscious awareness. A person's courageous struggle to eliminate the trepidation of social exile produces insights into what it means to be human. We can displace emotional disquiet by living a heightened state of existence. How a person's resolves the tremendous anxiety and dizziness that impetus comes from contemplating the inevitability of death, human freedom of choice, the moral responsibilities attendant to living in a selected manner, existential isolation, and the possibility of nothingness establishes a governing philosophical framework. A person must not rue ouster from society because release from moral and societal constraints spurs learning and advanced consciousness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

If you're going to buy a castle, make sure you get on the property extension ladder. — Benny Bellamacina

You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want ... — Julia Heywood

In the big scheme of things, all's we really need, is a little love — Benny Bellamacina

Only the shallowest person believes that they can attain true happiness by maximizing their wealth at any cost. In absence of morality, ethics, and a sustainable philosophy to guide us in an ethical search for happiness, we will always perceive life's random countervailing forces of adversity and unpleasantness as inflicting a great personal injustice upon us. Through application of a deeply embedded personal philosophy, we can push back against the negative implications of a life of suffering. We can use a philosophical stance to gain the perspective needed to say 'yes' to all of life, both its rosy path of ineffable joys and a blackened trail of tears. We must learn to accept life as it truly is and not waste precious time in wistfulness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Money has the power to get, all that you want.
Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want. — Akash Lakhotia

It is common to represent a title, but inspiring to represent a purpose. — T.F. Hodge

Every past used to be a future once upon a time — Munia Khan

Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill. — Munia Khan

Only gravity can hold me down; only myself can hold me back." ~ Amunhotep El Bey — Amunhotep El Bey

Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place. — Duop Chak Wuol

When it comes to the self in becoming, the greatest enrichment another person can bring to your life is the gift of enabling you to be yourself, and the influence of helping that self reach its full potential. With this comes the freedom for that real self to grow. Whether in the form of a friend, family member or a beloved, those who will be true blessings to us are those with whom we can diminish our social affectations, cast off our fears and insecurities, break free the shackles of unnaturalness that the social world brings to bear on us, and be freed from the yoke of impressing on others the artificial selves we create for the watching world. Stay close to the ones who can help bring out all the facets of the excellent self that's inside you - for then you will delight in the freedom to shine. — James Knight - The Philosophical Muser Blog

You won't comprehend the vitality of literacy until you marry an illiterate. — Kshitij Shringi

Walk in the light while you have the light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To inspire is to teach life principles in the spirit of Love. — Delma Pryce

Always skip to the pub to enjoy your barley and hops — Benny Bellamacina

If you want to leave a big mark in life, make sure you've got a bigger rubber — Benny Bellamacina

If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way — Benny Bellamacina

I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

I think a good rule of thumb for being true to your own convictions is this; don't do or champion anything in the name of a group that you wouldn't do or champion as an individual - for if you do so, you become a chameleon that fades into the colours of group think, and you compromise the autonomy of individuation. — James Knight - The Philosophical Muser

Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others. — Julia Heywood

Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember. — Amit Kalantri

Every dream is the beginning of a new life in your thoughts.. — Munia Khan

The Book of Chuang Tzu is like a travelogue. As such, it meanders between continents, pauses to discuss diet, gives exchange rates, breaks off to speculate, offers a bus timetable, tells an amusing incident, quotes from poetry, relates a story, cites scripture. To try and make it read like a novel or a philosophical handbook is simply to ask it, this travelogue of life, to do something it was never designed to do. And always listen out for the mocking laughter of Chuang Tzu. — Zhuangzi

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence. — Amit Kalantri

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

Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing — Munia Khan

A single lie is the father of all lies — Sheeja Jose

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

Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey — Amunhotep El Bey

Love at first sight is a polite phrase used when one wants to fuck a stranger. — Sheeja Jose

Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation. — Pearl S. Buck

The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person's fertile mind by exposing a person to the puzzling world of the beautiful, elegant, ugly, and grotesque. Human beings ability to experience sublime pleasure emanates from a variety of sensory experiences and a person's ability to make discriminatory observations and judgment in taste and sentiment. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Milk is the only juice in a world of cows. — Munia Khan

To experience peace ~ stop disturbing it! — Julia Heywood

Don't think about the things that made you to think and think and think... — Self

You are the best book you could ever write phi — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

If on thoughts of death we are fed,
Thus, a coffin, became my bed. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Take heart. You're not alone. Every broken heart breathes again. That's life. It goes on. In loss, and in gain. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Life, wherever it leads,
Will always be the same,
It begs for the best of you. — Scott Hastie

In the hands of blood-sucking monsters a scripture becomes a weapon that takes away humanism from the heart of humans and fills them with hate, rage and selfishness, whereas, in the hands of modern human beings the same scripture can become the greatest philosophical tool to endow the species with goodness and compassion. — Abhijit Naskar

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

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

subway stations...
passengers who token through life — Richard L. Ratliff

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free. — Daniel Delgado F.

I am not apologetic. I don't define or defend my philosophical thoughts. You have to feel them, think about them, imagine them, and then try to understand them. My thoughts are my truths. They may not be your truth, and that is fine with me. — Debasish Mridha

Better to be a successful failure, than to fail at success. — Benny Bellamacina

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

Best that all mischief be undertaken behind a squeaky door — Benny Bellamacina

Do not afraid of your previous mistakes, try to fix them. — Kamaran Ihsan Salih

The continental philosopher comes to a philosophical conversation looking to have a communal experience where both sides learn from each other. Their perspective is often that we may be on different paragraphs but we are all on the same page.

They'll often speak in stories as an attempt to create a world where everyone listening works together to create agreed upon language/inside jokes/slang.

By contrast, the analytic philosopher often comes to a philosophical conversation looking to win an argument. They often have a set of patterns, labels and pre-packaged arguments. To them, clever double speak and long drawn out narratives are not profound. They'll often label it halfway through as just a bunch of made up gibberish that leaves things even more confusing than before.

It is as if the analytic philosopher says to the continental philosopher 'you are speaking gibberish' and the continental philosopher responds with 'exactly. — Chester Elijah Branch

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

He who has no dreams has no hope and thus lives in a hell of his own making - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask. — Stephanie Mbida

If you're given a dirty look, wash it and give it back. — Benny Bellamacina

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

Writing is one way to explore new ideas and by doing so blunt the sense of personal unrest and discontent. Writing assist us recognize, explore, and accept the patent absurdity of life. Writing facilitates thinking; the reagent substances we produce through writing augment our expanding system of ideas. Writing boldly triggers a chain reaction in our philosophical structure and thus writing can operate to transform who we are. — Kilroy J. Oldster

There can be no law of nature, no science,
No aberrant infliction of human will
That unchained the soul cannot conquer,
Simply sweep away, should it chose to. — Scott Hastie

A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world — Munia Khan

If you miss your bus, just start walking. — Shan McGinley

Try and avoid people who use the word "cant" regularly associate rather with those who say "can" and do — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself. — Romain Rolland

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

Time in the most powerful thing.
Not money, not power, not hope.
A person can have everything they
desire but without time they are,
all useless. — Akash Lakhotia

We employ our personality, what we know, think, and believe, in order to interpret the world, making self-understanding a critical act because it establishes the baseline for our philosophical and intellectual approach towards life. — Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Most important thing in life is family,
Without them you are nothing.
Whatever you do will be worth nothing,
If there is no one to appreciate it. — Akash Lakhotia

Make mistakes, a thousand of them because we are only humans.
Never repeat your mistakes because we are humans. — Akash Lakhotia

Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Sometimes the burden of love is heavier than a heavy heart — Munia Khan

Almost nothing is as dull as guys who pretend to be soccer experts, they're almost as dull as the poetry ones. All this crazy talk about 'soccer strategies' its just a silly ballgame. Hardly any strategy possible. You either put 4 or 5 guys in the middle of the field, that's about it. And yet they talk about it as if it the most complex philosophical problem ever invented. — Martijn Benders

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

We all act as independent learners in charge of designing our autodidactic curricula. Reading the books written by the prophetic genius of history including the literary masterpieces and philosophical treatises awakens the mind. Reading can act as a gateway drug leading to writing and expansion of a personal state of conscious awareness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English
a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs! — Dew Platt

Love is love, even if it is illicit; like light remains light even in the darkness. — Munia Khan

Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes — Benny Bellamacina

Dawn and dusk are mutual friends of the sun; one opens the door for him to a brand new day and the other one has to shut it to embrace the darkness of night. — Munia Khan

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within. — E.A. Bucchianeri

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

It only takes one person, one voice from somewhere beyond, to save a life. — Kirsten Arcadio

I don't mind writing philosophical thoughts. If I don't want to die like one. — Debasish Mridha

It's not really outstanding when you're standing out
Outcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout — Munia Khan

If to live is to die, then to die is to live on. — Palle Oswald