Philosophy Quotes - Page 66

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.

Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy.

If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration.

Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Nietzsche is absolutely correct, even more correct today than when he wrote it in Thus Spake Zarathustra: I looked all about me for human beings but all I saw were fragments, deformed creatures with too much eye or too much ear. This is what the modern culture of specialized intellect-the kind of one-sidedness that banausic utilitarianism alone can value-works so hard to produce.

The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from even the one thing they think is most certainly true, i.e. the confidence that they are truly Christians.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

Living safe behind a wall, never tasting life at all.

My philosophy about journalism is simple - that we have a job to hold those in power accountable, to give voice to the voiceless, and to provide people with information that they can use to make informed decisions about what policies they want enacted in their name and what policies they don't.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.