Philosophical Quotes - Page 52

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile.

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.

The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter if not a paragraph or a name in the history of philosophy.

Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science.