Pedagogic Philosophy Quotes

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. ~ Ivan Illich

A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation. ~ Frederick Lenz

Life is about finding yourself. Finding yourself is about finding your ultimate goal, ultimate passion. ~ Debasish Mridha

The art of remembering is the art of thinking and by adding, with Dr.Pick, that, when we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall. ~ William James

The natural world gives us many examples of the great effectiveness of this way. The Chinese philosophy of which judo itself is an expression - Taoism - drew attention to the power of water to overcome all obstacles by its gentleness and pliability. It showed how the supple willow survives the tough pine in a snowstorm, for whereas the unyielding branches of the pine accumulate snow until they crack, the springy boughs of the willow bend under its weight, drop the snow, and jump back again. If, when swimming, you are caught in a strong current, it is fatal to resist. You must swim with it and gradually edge to the side. One who falls from a height with stiff limbs will break them, but if he relaxes like a cat he will fall safely. A building without 'give' in its structure will easily collapse in storm or earthquake, and a car without the cushioning of tires and springs will soon come apart on the road. The mind has just the same powers, for it has give and can absorb shocks like water or a cushion. But this giving way to an opposing force is not at all the same thing as running away. A body of water does not run away when you push it; it simply gives at the point of the push and encloses your hand. A shock absorber does not fall down like a bowling-pin when struck; it gives, and yet stays in the same place. To run away is the only defense of something rigid against an overwhelming force. Therefore the good shock absorber has not only 'give,' but also stability or 'weight. ~ Alan W. Watts

All I ask," the doctor said, "is that you keep in mind that all creations, all advances, all inventions, come with a price. They can be used for good or they can be used for evil. But in my philosophy, mine is not to determine politics or to decide if a certain advance should be created. Mine is to determine if it could be created. There's no use in debating the morals when I don't even know if something will work. ~ Colleen Houck

So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at all can find expression in our controlled media and educational systems. Forget about wholesale culture- or civilization-critics like Marxists. Universities have to be purged of any "radicalism" that can see through to the roots of issues and pathologies, for the same reasons that workers have to have nascent unions aborted among them and contrarian newspapers and media have to be starved of advertising. ~ Kenny Smith

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions. ~ Daniel Dennett

Geography should be the ultimate deciding factor for every political dilemma for proximity to an ailing land is bound to result in one's infection. ~ Aysha Taryam

Sleep is but a vessel in which our dreams traverse the heavens. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

When you're alive hope is smiling for a great life.
So don't delay, hope for the best, take actions and have a great life. ~ Debasish Mridha

Self-respect is nothing but self-confidence. ~ Debasish Mridha

Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy. ~ Margaret Mead

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility ~ Camille Paglia

It comes from within. ~ Stephen R. Covey

Let us be kind. It is the simplest way to touch someone's heart. ~ Debasish Mridha

Change your perception and be happy where you are, how you are, with whom you are. ~ Debasish Mridha

My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too. ~ Dwayne Johnson

Love a tree; it will love you back. ~ Debasish Mridha

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict. ~ J.M. Coetzee

To pursue peace, be patient and peaceful. ~ Debasish Mridha

What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature? ~ Kevin Dutton

Never waste your precious time in discussing the good and bad qualities of others. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The imagination is the voyage of our thoughts in the endless ocean of the mind that searches for the splendid beaches of happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Let kindness be the flower of your heart and fragrance of your mind. Let it fill the world with peace, joy and the fragrance of kindness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Every wise man have walked away from the world in his way with the only obstinacy to make it ~ P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

That's why I love philosophy: no one wins. ~ D.T. Suzuki

Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing. ~ Plato

Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully ~ Kate Spade

To have more, give more
To be happy, love more. ~ Debasish Mridha

You will never see my dark side because I never turn the lights on. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

They think that your body creates a desire and makes a choice for you just about in some such way as if iron ore transformed itself into railroad rails of its own volition. Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. ~ Ayn Rand

Success depends on your choices and actions. ~ Debasish Mridha