Quotes on Philosophical

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.