Philosophical Quotes - Page 16

• Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Thinking, Today, Way

  Song: I Feel Lucky, 1992

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• And right action is freedom From past and future also.

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Action, Right Action

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

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• The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.

  Meister Eckhart

  Yesterday, World, Lasts

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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• My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Action, Unconditional

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• There are no infidels anywhere but on earth: there are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice, for the devils believe and tremble. And there are some of the devil's children that have gone beyond their father in sin, but how will it look when they are for ever lost?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Believe

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• I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

  Ravi Zacharias

  Atheist, Atheism, Infinite

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “The Real Face of Atheism”, p.36, Baker Books

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• Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Hate, Atheism

  "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics". Book by Ray Comfort, 2009.

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• There is moderation in everything.

  Horace

  Moderation

  Satires bk. 1, no. 1, l. 106

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• Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love

  Mother Teresa

  Love Is, Justice, Without Love

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• Everything flows and nothing stays.

  Homer

  Spiritual, Flow

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• The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. The atheists' problem is not that they cannot know God, rather it is they do not want to know him. Man's problem with the existence of God is not an intellectual problem; it is a moral problem." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men - Rom. 1:18"

  R. C. Sproul

  Atheist, Men, Wrath

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• The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Attention, Pay, Too Much

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• And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Light, Soul

  Saint Augustine (2009). “The Confessions of St. Augustine”, p.174, The Floating Press

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• God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

  Meister Eckhart

  Simplicity, Soul, Process

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

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• It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Excellence, Quality, Matter

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius". Book by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, transl. Richard Mott Gummere, Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, line 1, 1920.

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• It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.

  Joe Hill

  Exercise, Evil, Interesting

  Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inspirational, Trying, Transformation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance, Cycles

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy of music, the philosophical history of music, the history of music as a history of the feeling soul.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Philosophy, Expression, Space

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• If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Character, Trying, Answers

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.115, Princeton University Press

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• The best things in life make you sweaty.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Purpose, Puberty

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• A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

  Jeff Lindsay

  Men, Fire, Worry

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.75, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Wise, Fate, Irrelevance

  "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.

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• For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

  Charles Simic

  Ideas, Seduction, Spirit

  Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.70, Copper Canyon Press

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• True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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