Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 9
Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.
Josiah Royce
The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.
George Will
Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
John Stott
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Charles Baudelaire
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
Alex Grey
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
John Banham
The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.
John Lancaster Spalding
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
Friedrich Schiller
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
Vera Nazarian
In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.
One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'
Rama Swami