Philosophical Musings Quotes

Lies are living beings; once they get hold of you they never let go ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

I do not want to sound cynical or condescending, but your lips are moving, your mind unbending. ~ Fakeer Ishavardas

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Love yourself, and you'll never be without a loved one. ~ Fakeer Ishavardas

But that is the way of life, and that was but one of the first times, among no few to come, that I was taught a useful lesson about how appearances trump truth, and how villains hide their vices behind masks of piety, honour, and decency. And that to denounce evildoers without proof, attack them with weapons, trust blindly in reason or justice, is often the fastest road toward one's own perdition, while the scoundrels who use influence or money as a shield remained untouched. ~ Arturo Perez Reverte

How do you know? How do you know you're a real boy? You might be a story in a book," Ahimsa challenged. "That's it! You're a Jack-in-the-Book and only pop out when the pages are opened," he scoffed. ~ Jacqueline Edgington

Most things don't stay the way they are very long. ~ Richard Ford

They said, Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You? ~ Qur'an 2 30

The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think. ~ Salley Vickers

Darkness holds eternal sway over he who cannot first find the light within himself. ~ Melissa McPhail

This book, then, does not consist of academic philosophical musings. Rather, it is a work of oral literature, addressed to people at war. How strange it must have seemed to turn on the radio, which was every day bringing news of death and unspeakable destruction, and hear one man talking, in an intelligent, good-humored, and probing tone, about decent and humane behavior, fair play, and the importance of knowing right from wrong. Asked by the BBC to explain to his fellow Britons what Christians believe, C. S. Lewis proceeded with the task as if it were the simplest thing in the world, and also the most important. ~ C.S. Lewis

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another. ~ Bill Murray

Leftie loosely is the way
to relax a set old screw
as rightie tightly thinks
new bullshit to pursue ~ Cornelia "Connie" DeDona

Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

I have begun to wonder where I came from. The person I am now, this fumbling, stumbling supplicant ... was I built on the foundations of my old life, or did I rise from the grave a blank state? How much of me is inherited, and how much is my own creation? Questions that were once just idle musings have begun to feel strangely urgent. Am I firmly rooted to what came before? Or can I choose to deviate? ~ Isaac Marion

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. ~ Fakeer Ishavardas

If you don't have a history, then you can't have a future. ~ Jacqueline Edgington

Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered. ~ Linda Collison

Most people are but a fake-art, and as real as a concealed fart. ~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

All the most fascinating subjects leave...no...shadows. But we keep watching and waiting just in case. ~ R.J. Askew

Mme. Bonacieux looked at the young man, restrained for a minute by a last hesitation; but there was so much ardor in his eyes, such persuasion in his voice, that she felt herself constrained to confide in him. Besides, she found herself in circumstances where everything must be risked for the sake of everything. ~ Alexandre Dumas

If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed. ~ Palle Oswald

If you lived a good life, you either lived to save or died to save… that which must be saved and kept. Your life would never be meaningless. Not even for a moment. ~ Melita Tessy

was driving up S 25th St., this afternoon, and saw this saying on a sign: "Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror."

Well, I pondered on that a bit. I sense a bit of danger with the idea of not checking out the rear view mirror on occasion. Like driving, it is important we know what has been and what could be coming from behind.

Some old cliches are around because they are true..."If you forget the past, you're bound to repeat it."...."Be prepared"... "Keep your eye on the prize."

Reflections ... Presence ... Aspirations ... ~ F. M. Proctor 'Madame Mim'

I think LOVE. Love is what brings families together, and love is often what drives them apart. Love can act as both a fuel and an exterminator for fire, a cause of war, but also of peace. Love brings new souls to the family and removes old ones. Love is a chain of memories, like an old photo album of life- you never really can throw it away. ~ Chloe Gadsby-Jones

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls
when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old] ~ Kresley Cole

The words are not good for the secret meaning, everything always becomes a bit different, as soon as it is put into words, gets distorted a bit, a bit silly - yes, and this is also very good, and I like it a lot, I also very much agree with this, that this what is one man's treasure and wisdom always sounds like foolishness to another person. ~ Hermann Hesse

What do you think all of us are here for? Certainly not to seek happiness. We are not here to enjoy. We are here to feel. Experiencing emotions is what human minds are made for. Emotions of every kind. A full gamut. A life spent on experiencing sentiments that lie at only one side of the spectrum is no life at all. We shouldn't avoid grief. Instead, we should welcome despair in our lives with open arms. For it makes us who we are. It makes us complete. ~ Abhaidev

The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

My boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality
just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust. ~ Alberto Moravia

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based. ~ Michel Houellebecq

I don't categorize things merely to simplify my understanding. I'd rather delve into the process of unlearning. ~ Nikhil Sharda

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our? ~ Aysha Taryam

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness ~ Sophocles

But hippies always forget that old Gaea can be one heartless bitch. Spend a little time wandering lost in the woods as she attacks you and tries to reduce you to fertilizer." She snorted. "You won't be singing kumbayas very long." She paused to make sure Janus would get the point. "In this world, Gaea's the predator and we're the prey. ~ Jenifer Mohammed

Sleep like you can never be dead
Dream as if you have a soul inside your head ~ Munia Khan

It's a cold sun that casts long shadows. ~ Christopher Carosa

We're shameless in overlooking our own faults, but graceless in letting go another's. ~ Fakeer Ishavardas

For the philosopher, language, thought, and passion are the same. Ideas are personal to a philosopher; they express their human passion and articulate their novel ideas in language. Ideas are more than mere concepts, trifles that the philosophical mind toys with. Ideas provide both the structure and inner vitality that holds great thinkers' conceptual structure together. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Creativity is our one ubiquitous commonality so perhaps that is where all constructive communication should begin. ~ Ken Poirot

When wisdom drips blood fools stand triumphant. ~ Gothos

Whether we are men dreaming we are butterflies or butterflies dreaming we are men, the one truth is that all life is an illusion. We are all wandering shades. ~ Jenifer Mohammed

Wind waves on the lake break hard against the sharp rocks, but wash gently on sandy shores. ~ Tom Gillaspy

But no matter what I do, it will always get me, bother me, and you know what this is, what gets me, and will continue to get me throughout my existence? It's that we as humans will never know the results of the other choice. What would have happened if I chose that instead of this? Naturally, the results or consequences would probably be different, perhaps very different. More importantly, would the other option have been the better choice? We will never know. I will never know. And this will always get me. ~ Jack Serv

No thought,no reflection,no analysis,no cultivation,no intention;let it settle itself.Relax "Tilopa ~ Tilopa

If you don't know history,
you don't know anything.
Edward Johnston ~ Richard Puz

Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek. ~ R.D. Ronald

Fear and anger, Yoda had often warned him, were slaves to the dark side. Vaguely, Luke wondered which side curiosity served. ~ Timothy Zahn

Ambition soars and also slithers ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Progress is heading in a forward direction and realizing what was behind is now your legacy! ~ K.C. Rhoads

Your greatest adventure is written inside of you ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Some are mature enough that they don't speak their minds. Some are so mature that they know they are not mature. ~ Abhaidev

The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance; just tolerance. ~ Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

Things are as they are, and no amount of self-deception makes them otherwise. The friend who is incapable of depression depresses us as surely as the friend who is incapable of boredom bores us. Somewhere in our hearts is a strong, though dimly understood, desire to face realities, and to measure consequences, to have done with the fatigue of pretending. It is not optimism to enjoy the view when one is treed by a bull; it is philosophy. The optimist would say that being treed was a valuable experience. The disciple of gladness would say it was a pleasurable sensation. The Christian Scientist would say there was no bull, though remaining–if he were wise–on the tree-top. The philosopher would make the best of a bad job, and seek what compensation he could find. ~ Agnes Repplier

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life. ~ Jay Woodman

People are no damn good. ~ William Steig

Sometimes the answer is in the question. ~ Cristina Smith

I blame God for all the good things that happened in my life to spite him I will be good to others ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence
-rassool jibraeel snyman ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Why would God create people with all these desires and curiosities and then punish them for trying to satisfy them? ~ Belle Blackburn

The sound was still off. In the movie, the girl and the woman had gotten into a car and were driving somewhere. They were still arguing. I watched their mouths without anu sound coming out. And the more I watched them, the more I thought that that's exactly how most people are. They move their mouths, but nothing important comes out. They just talk and talk and talk. That's what Cat Poop wants me to do: talk. But like I keep telling him, there's nothing to say.

"Suicide Notes ~ Ford Michael Thomas

Most things dopn't stay the way they are very long. ~ Richard Ford

We may be pilgrims passing through this world, but let's not be grim-pills in the process! ~ Arthur D Bardswell

Everyone's broken, one way or another. ~ Max Barry

We were convinced of the inherent madness of codified inequity. All cooperation involves some measure of surrender. And coercion. But the alternative, being anarchy, is itself no worthy virtue. It is but an excuse for selfish aggression, and all that seeks justification from taking that stance is, each and every time, cold-hearted. Anarchists live in fear and long for death, because they despair of seeing in others the very virtues they lack in themselves. In this manner, they take pleasure in sowing destruction, if only to match their inner landscape of ruin. [ ... ] We rejected civilization, but so too we rejected anarchy for its petty belligerence and the weakness of thought it announced. By these decisions, we made ourselves lost and bereft of purpose. ~ Steven Erikson

Such philosophical musings risk inviting depression or inefficiency. Better just to fix the problem and move on to the next one. It's all part of being a service provider at the end of the line. ~ Katrina Firlik

Some people build houses others build people; of the two I would rather be of the latter ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Hope without fulfillment is more cruel than despair ~ Geraldine Harris

A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions. ~ George Trumbull Ladd

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives. ~ Julian Baggini

I write because…

I write because I love the art and the magic of Literature.

I write because it keeps me safe, sane, and connected to you.

I write because it takes me to the places I want to go and those who wish to join me in the journey; may grasp my hand and my heart; in this stroll through this moment of time.

I write because when no one was there, the word was there: The word has always been and always will be the preeminent being in my universe.

I write because it allows me; to allow you to be understood and we are joined for a moment in time.

I do not write because it comes from a place of grammatical perfection; free of line breaks in perfected poetry; for my history is one of line breaks and imperfections.

I do not come to you from a place of polished and perfected; educated and critiqued.

No! I come to you from a place of raw, real, gutsy, and riveting. What I give you is raw, real, gutsy and riveting; with all of its imperfections and inconsistencies.

You have been touched, you have been curious, and you have been intrigued; you have come back looking, longing, expecting or not…

But then suddenly you were surprised; surprised that you could be moved; surprised that your preconceived ideas had been shattered by one who writes because… ~ Suzanne Steele

Take heart. You're not alone. Every broken heart breathes again. That's life. It goes on. In loss, and in gain. ~ Fakeer Ishavardas

We are, now, just as valuable, intelligent, and real as Eliot or any of his contemporaries. Our ideas and experiences are just as sound and true. Our passion to save our world from what we see it becoming is just as authentic. We are always the Lost Generation, but with different accoutrements. ~ Nate Ragolia

He has committed the crime who profits by it. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Everything is borrowed. ~ Sean Aeon

In Unity we can be enslaved, and in Unity we can also come together as individuals. Old Woman ~ Eleni Papanou

Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use of this power we need more, not less, of the objective dispassionate scientific spirit. For our philosophical purposes we need more of its integrity and its basic humility, its respect at once for the fact and the mystery. ~ Herbert J. Muller

The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force. ~ Herbert Hoover

In the real world, in the grand scheme of life, this year is going to count for exactly nothing. These are the friendships that don't last and the choices that don't count. All those things we freak out about now, like who's going to be class president and are we going to win the game this weekend- there's going to be a time when we can't remember caring about them. In exactly three hundred and sixty five days from right now, wearing your letter jacket will make you look like the lamest of losers. ~ Jen Klein

I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels. ~ William Shakespeare

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. ~ Elizabeth Goudge

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation
a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner. ~ Herman Melville

The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life. ~ Thomas Merton

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. ~ David Hume

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know. ~ Ted Chiang

Roger Williams died sometime during the early months of 1683. Some of what he said and wrote during his lifetime belongs to the seventeenth century. But much of his historical and philosophical record speaks to us across the centuries. ~ Alan E. Johnson

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy! ~ Robert Burns

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? ~ John Lancaster Spalding

It only becomes art if it touches other people. ~ Andreas Eschbach

I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts. ~ Russell Brand

Philosophy needs vision and argument… there is something disappointing about a philosophical work that contains arguments, however good, which are not inspired by some genuine vision, and something disappointing about a philosophical work that contains a vision, however inspiring, which is unsupported by arguments…Speculation about how things hang together requires… the ability to draw out conceptual distinctions and connections, and the ability to argue… But speculative views, however interesting or well supported by arguments or insightful, are not all we need. We also need what [the philosopher Myles] Burnyeat called 'vision' – and I take that to mean vision as to how to live our lives, and how to order our societies. ~ Hilary Putnam

The first question we must address deals with optimism, the possibility of achieving our goal. Are we in a position where we can actually hope to effect change? Assuming we become convinced that there are reasons for optimism, we move to the next question. Are we cetain that we want change? The stories about EHMs, jackals, and suffering around the globe strike raw nerves, but now we demand absolute proof that our grievances justify the efforts change will demand. Third: Is there a unifying principle that will validate our efforts? We look to ascertain that we are not merely seeking to impose our moral, religious, or philosophical values on others but instead are intent on creating something of true and lasting universal benefit. And finally: What can we each do? You and I personally need to evaluate our talents and passions. What are our individual options and desires? How do they fit into the bigger picture? ~ John Perkins

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old. ~ Sharon Creech

I am not apologetic. I don't define or defend my philosophical thoughts. You have to feel them, think about them, imagine them, and then try to understand them. My thoughts are my truths. They may not be your truth, and that is fine with me. ~ Debasish Mridha

Now a life like that, he figured, could make one tentative and fearful perhaps. Or it could make you remarkably strong, and what people called philosophical---and fiercely independent. Maybe it could make you careless of your own life, indifferent to danger, and determined to live exactly as you pleased. ~ Anne Rice

In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer