Philosophy Objectivism Quotes

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job. -Dagny Taggart ~ Ayn Rand

Her philosophy, Objectivism, advocates reason, individualism, and personal happiness. Conservatives are more likely to favor faith, tradition, and duty as core values. Politically, Objectivism is classically liberal or libertarian. It expresses a worldview associated with the Enlightenment. Ayn Rand fundamentally rejected the conservative-liberal distinction in culture. ~ David Kelley

Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change.
Drizzt Do'Urden ~ R.A. Salvatore

Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning faith in the ability of the market to guide the system to its point of highest return. The market-that wonderful social machine-would take care of society's needs if it was left alone. Don't try to do good, says Smith. Let good emerge as the by-product of selfishness. ~ Robert Heilbroner

One of the happiest moments of life is when you learn to love without expecting any return. ~ Debasish Mridha

My heart is loving, words are kind
My actions are caring with a sympathetic mind. ~ Debasish Mridha

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre. ~ Heraclitus

Like simple minded goldfish, we often believe the boundaries of our bowl to be the entire ocean. ~ Laren Grey Umphlett

Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive. ~ Abraham H. Maslow

Shine as if you are the brightest star. ~ Debasish Mridha

Knowing the why is vastly more important than knowing the how. ~ Debasish Mridha

I am always happy to meet my friend, and my friend is my weekend. ~ Debasish Mridha

To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being.

"Philosophy and Science", World Review Magazine (March 1950). ~ Karl Jaspers

But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one. ~ Jonah Goldberg

There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes. ~ Amit Kalantri

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free. ~ Daniel Delgado F.

Live in the midst of q crowd, but think like you're in the solitude. ~ Debasish Mridha

Like a rose, life is charming and beautiful. By spreading fragrance, we make it meaningful. ~ Debasish Mridha

Forgiving someone is to give them a second chance. If someone forgives you, don't wast it. You probably won't get a third chance. - The Malwatch ~ Scaylen Renvac

Intrinsic personal value - the foundation of ethical value - starts when our individual life journeys begin. It ends only with the cessation of our existence. ~ John F. Kavanaugh S.J.

Have firm ideas of a particular life changes you wish to put into action. ~ Steven Redhead

What is the world of the spirits? It is nothing I know about. I don't know what spirit is."
"Spirit is what matter does. ~ Philip Pullman

If there are not mothers, where will men come from and who will feed them? ~ Debasish Mridha

Every morning, appreciate the golden glowing sun for giving you life. Every evening, appreciate yourself for making the world a little more joyful with your lovely presence. ~ Debasish Mridha

Let us make a choice and a promise to be kind, courteous, loving, and forgiving. ~ Debasish Mridha

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ~ Aristotle.

Often we find a friend, not by accident, by unknown inner attraction and synchronicity. ~ Debasish Mridha

Philosophy, then, is that thinkins with which one can start nothing and about which housemaids necessarily laugh. Such a definition of philosophy is not a mere joke but is something to think over. We shall fo well to remember occasionally that by our strolling we can fall into a well whereby we may not reach ground for quite some time. ~ Martin Heidegger

Love does make everything beautiful.
Smile adds the charm to make it wonderful. ~ Debasish Mridha

I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me. ~ Jennifer Lopez

Be awake in every moment but be calm and live in serenity in the midst of chaos. ~ Debasish Mridha

I do not know that everything happens for a reason. I simply know that everything happens. ~ Erin Loechner

Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendor and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing about you is ignoble. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Let it go to have it forever. ~ Debasish Mridha

Love is the bridge that crosses over the river of hate. ~ Debasish Mridha

Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate. ~ Amit Kalantri

Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a religion', nor 'a philosophy.' It is the summing up and actuality of them all. ~ C.S. Lewis

Life is full of beauty, when we focus on the bliss of being. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Despite the personalization of life's events, all people largely experience the same general transformative stages of life and eventually we all encounter a row of similar tragedies. We do not experience identical lives or exemplify replicable personalities. Every person is a receptacle whom is capable of experiencing the full gamut of the entire human condition. Our lives act as a period of apprenticeship, which we devote laboring to discover the truths that we can live by. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

WILL ALIGNMENT
Despot's ultimate goal, using terror as his tool in trade = Corporal punishment in schools
Kamil Ali ~ Kamil Ali

When you serve the humanity with love and kindness, you find the ecstasy of life, the happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

A comprehensive philosophy of history should interpret the changes in man's condition as a meaningful succession of historical ways of life; in every epoch these ways of life account fro the general situation and the prevailing patterns of action and though. They do not replace each other suddenly. The old is still alive while the new unfolds itself. The mighty breakthrough of the new is bound at first to fail against the staying power and coherence of the old way of life not yet exhausted. Transition is the zone of tragedy. ~ Karl Jaspers

Our lives are part of a unique adventure ... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal
like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together. ~ Jostein Gaarder