Quotes Tagged "philosophy"

Abundance is not the absence of scarcity; it is the presence of abundant mentality.

If you want to fly, grow wings of faith.

...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. What you need to do is move from reason that ‘observes’ to reason that ‘acts’. That’s what critical.

Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?

No one can erase or steal those sweetest memories of love.

While many explorers like to endure hardship by traveling to remote inhospitable parts of the world, I prefer to explore from the comfort of my own home.

She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole world, because if the whole world had seen it, it would have had the power to stop all wars and hatred on the face of the planet, or at lease there would have been some long ceasefires.

I long for the slightest evidence of it that doesn’t require me to relinquish reason, because a natural mystery and reason to face it make the happiest combination of all.

When something is dirty you wash it. That's what my mum always said. Yet... When you have dirty money and you launder it, people jump up and down. I guess that's life.

For over a century and a half, anarchists have been arguing that coercive, hierarchical organization (as embodied in government and corporations) is not equivalent to organization per se (which they regard as necessary), and that coercive organization should be replaced by decentralized, nonhierarchical organization based on voluntary cooperation and mutual aid. This is hardly a rejection of organization.

See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL!

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

Don’t you know it is your joy that makes the universe joyful?

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.

Most often you don’t own your own mind; you borrow it from society.

A crossroad is a holy place. There, the pilgrim has to make a decision. That is why the gods usually sleep and eat at crossroads. Where roads cross, two great forces are concentrated -the path that will be chosen, and the path to be ignored. Both are transformed into a single path, but only for a short period of time. The pilgrim may rest, sleep a bit, and even consult with the gods that inhabit the crossroad. But no one can remain there forever: once his choice is made, he has to move on, without thinking about the path he has rejected. Otherwise, the crossroad becomes a curse.

When the school of thought is divided, the sharks shall swim in, and take their share.

Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.