Philosopher Quotes - Page 4

• Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

  Noel Carroll

  Sports, Running, Independence

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• Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"

  Al-Ghazali

  Change, Wise, Spiritual

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• If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

  Al-Ghazali

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Islamic

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• What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Karma

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 04, 2011

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• In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

  Tariq Ramadan

  Inspirational, God, Faith

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• Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Inspirational, Beauty, Humility

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• Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

  Ayn Rand

  Peace, Philosophy, Men

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.47, Penguin

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• The root of suffering is attachment

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• A jug fills drop by drop.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• To understand everything is to forgive everything.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Forgiveness

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• All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Self

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• When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, People

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2313, Penguin

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• The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Meaningful, Wisdom, Yoga

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• When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

  Ibn Hazm

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Health

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• The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Depression

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 16, 2015

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• To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 27, 2011

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• If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Dream, Waste

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 30, 2014

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• When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.81, Penguin

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• All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Novelists, Use

  "The Virtue of Selfishness". Book by Ayn Rand, 1964.

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• I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Respect, Work, Mean

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “On Anarchism”, p.109, New Press, The

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• The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.

  Noam Chomsky

  Power, Society, Want

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.136, AK Press

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• We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 28, 2012

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• When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Wish

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• Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

  Cornel West

  Love, Truth, Superficial Things

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