Quotes Tagged "philosophy"

There is a difference between the irresistible impulse, and the impulse not resisted. And that is why the best thieves don't get caught.

Reforming ignorantly, will consequence crisis and destruction.

If a purpose is to be assigned to Life, it should be Living.

This is, perhaps, the most difficult of all mortifications to achieve a 'holy indifference' to the temporal success or failure of the cause to which one has devoted one's best energies. If it triumphs, well and good; and if it meets defeat, that also is well and good, if only in ways that, to a limited and timebound mind, are here and now entirely incomprehensible.

I think in life we sometimes subconsciously choose what we cant live without, to find that we can live without. It is just something we tell ourselves, because we don’t want to choose or to make a decision on what we say we can’t live without.

Only if all members of society can satisfy the needs they share with all others – physical and emotional intimacy, economic independence, and political self-determination – by relying on the sympathy and support of their partners in interaction will our society have become social in the full sense of the term.

To lovers out there…. In a relationship you must give as much as you take or give more. You can’t always withdraw , without putting something in . You will exhaust your love balance and there won’t be anything left for you. Most relationship are running on negative balance, because one partner is only benefiting and receiving from the relationship without contributing.

The world took quite a hit. It is dreaming now. We're all like babies who were never born. All they ever know are dreams and darkness and then they're gone.

I've never been good with current events, she told us. I always keep getting bogged down with simple things, like 'why are we here?

A man's work is nothing but his slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

And humans, who by my reasoning had less ground than I to think anything they did might matter in any real way, did far more. They traveled. They changed the landscape in large and small ways. They put plans in motion that they knew they would not see completed - plans that would benefit not them but their children and their grandchildren. When I - I had kept myself clear of dirt and leaves and snow. Perhaps the length of one's life was not important - except in the way it is to so many living beings, desperate to avoid death. Perhaps, long or short, it mattered how one spent that time.

One of its most distinguished practitioners, Alexander Rosenberg, has recently argued that philosophy in fact addresses just two issues: the questions that the sciences—physical, biological, and social—cannot answer, and the reasons for that incapacity.

A successful relationship with the Other finds expression as a kind of failure. Only by way of being able not to be able does the Other appear

The society of positivity, from which negativity has disappeared, is a society of bare life, which is exclusively dominated by the concern to make sure of survival

Yes, happiness is the proof that time can accommodate eternity

People who are not physically or financially attractive tend to apply themselves academically more than those who actually get great sex.

What we can see determines what we choose. Good is the distant source of light, it is the unimaginable object of our desire. Our fallen nature knows only its name and its perfection. That is the idea which is vulgarized by existentialists and linguistic philosophers when they make good into a mere matter of personal choice. It cannot be defined, not because it is a function of our freedom, but because we do not know it.

Always pray for your plans ,so that the Lord can see to it, that they happen.

The first thing most people do , when they wake up. They check their mobile to see if they are missing something. They try to be updated and to catch on what is happening in the world. Sometimes choose to log of from your social media and try to catch up with your reality. Catch up on your goals and dreams. Catch up with your family, friends and colleagues. Catch up with people around you. No matter how addictive social media is. Your on Wi-FI or how many data you have. You should never lose touch with the real world .

To lovers out there… Most people are single. Most relationship are toxic and end badly . Most people are hurt, because of someone trying to prove a point.