Items tagged as 'Philosophy'

Items tagged as 'Philosophy'

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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham
If your face is ugly, learn to sing.
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
The people's good is the highest law.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
All men -- whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans -- have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their so
Snakes and ladders: the game of organized religions.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
There are two ways of being happy: We may either diminish our wants or augment our means - either will do - the result in the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happ
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretences but your own.
The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instan
Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.
Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them- who were above such trifling.
Solitude has but one disadvantage; it is apt to give one too high an opinion of one's self. In the world we are sure to be often reminded of every known or supposed defect we may have.
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old -- reformers in the morning, conservatives at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism is negative; conservatism goes
There will be no Homeland Security until we realize that the entire planet is our homeland. Every sentient being in the world must feel secure.
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?

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