Situationism Philosophy Quotes

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education. ~ Bob Black

The real enemy is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class society, or statism, or the society of the spectacle expropriates everyday life, the time of our lives. The real enemy is not an object apart from life. It is the organization of life by powers detached from it and turned against it. The apparatus, not its personnel, is the real enemy. But it is by and through the apparatchiks and everyone else participating in the system that domination and deception are made manifest. The totality is the organization of all against each and each against all. It includes all the policemen, all the social workers, all the office workers, all the nuns, all the op-ed columnists, all the drug kingpins from Medellin to Upjohn, all the syndicalists and all the situationists. ~ Bob Black

If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just. ~ Debasish Mridha

Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex. ~ Karl Marx

The spicier the food, the spicier the love. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

You are truly living when you have inner peace. You are far away from the beauty of life when you are fighting a war. ~ Debasish Mridha

Look at me; look at me.
Can you see; can you see?
I am here; you are there.
No more fear; no more fear.
In our heart; in our mind
We are smart; we are kind.
We will find; we fill find
Joyful heart and blissful mind. ~ Debasish Mridha

We dont study philosophy, we rather do it. ~ William F. Lawhead

These poor people have learned to endure day to day economic agony. It's routine in daily life for them. They are so accustomed to facing economic pain that poverty doesn't hurt them anymore. Extreme negativity in their life drove learning endurance and their accomplishment to endure extreme conditions is 'positivity' they mastered ~ Sadashivan Nair

If you know the secret of life, you will never think negatively. ~ Debasish Mridha

Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about it, it's just been so true to me. And I do try to take some practices of that into my daily life. Whether that's meditating or trying to see the world from that perspective. ~ Joan Osborne

For peace, living in harmony is essential. ~ Debasish Mridha

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century. ~ Alfred Marshall

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy. ~ Thomas Hobbes

Happiness is in love, in service, and in beautiful memory. ~ Debasish Mridha

The measure of a person's strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability. ~ Debasish Mridha

I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian... The two were engaged in disputation and the theologian used the old quip about a philosopher resembling a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat - which wasn't there. 'That may be,' said the philosopher, 'but a theologian would have found it. ~ Julian Huxley

There is no fact or fiction, reality or illusion, there is only the trick of perception. ~ Debasish Mridha

This example, it seems to us, suffices to show in what way the nonreligious man of modern societies is still nourished and aided by the activity of his unconscious, yet without thereby attaining to a properly religious experience and vision of the world. The unconscious offers him solutions for the difficulties of his own life, and in this way plays the role of religion, for, before making an existence a creator of values, religion ensures its integrity, From one point of view it could almost be said that in the case of those moderns who proclaim that they are nonreligious, religion and mythology are "eclipsed" in the darkness of their unconscious - which means too that in such men the possibility of reintegrating a religious vision of life lies at a great depth. Or, from the Christian point of view, it could also be said that nonreligion is equivalent to a new "fall" of man - in other words, that nonreligious man has lost the capacity to live religion consciously, and hence to understand and assume it; but that, in his deepest being, he still retains a memory of it, as, after the first "fall," his ancestor, the primordial man, retained intelligence enough to enable him to rediscover the traces of God that are visible in the world. After the first "fall," the religious sense descended to the level of the ' 'divided" consciousness"; now, after the second, it has fallen even further, into the depths of the unconscious; it has been "forgotten," Here the considerations of the hi ~ Mircea Eliade

Poverty was nature surviving in society; that the limitedness of food and the unlimitedness of men had come to an issue just when the promise of boundless increase of wealth burst in upon us made the irony only the more bitter. ~ Karl Polanyi

The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body. ~ Edward Gibbon

Act, not for results, just for action.
Give, not for appreciation, just to help.
Be kind, not for something in return, just to love. ~ Debasish Mridha

Unfortunately there are some trends that are changing this but you don't have for example as strict and narrow understanding of the relationship between men and women. And then there is the philosophy we have to extract in the relationship between text and culture. ~ Tariq Ramadan

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. ~ Michael Collins

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

Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human. ~ Abhijit Naskar

We are the prisoners of our thoughts; we are conformists. We fear new thoughts, new ideas, and new adventures. ~ Debasish Mridha

It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person. ~ Thubten Yeshe

Forgiveness is the best strategy to find peace. Peace is the best policy to live by. ~ Debasish Mridha

When gratitude begins, then life finds the abundance and suffering ends. ~ Debasish Mridha

Women are the flower in the garden of humanity. ~ Debasish Mridha

Clean the lenses of your heart - world is beautiful. ~ Amit Ray

The problem with "seeking the truth" or "finding the right way" is that neither exists -- it's all trial and error along with adaptation & change. ~ Andy Harglesis

Remember, you are the light of love in the darkness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Think about peace, dream about peace, and take action to make the world peaceful. ~ Debasish Mridha

She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough. ~ Jackson Burnett

The audacity of thought is not to repeat 'to the limit' that which is already entirely retained within the situation which the limit limits; the audacity of thought consists in crossing a space where nothing is given. We must learn once more how to succeed. ~ Alain Badiou

Culturally, however, Sicily had great advantages. Muslim, Byzantine, Italian, and German civilization met and mingled there as nowhere else. Greek and Arabic were still living languages in Sicily. Frederick learnt to speak six languages fluently, and in all six he was witty. He was at home in Arabian philosophy, and had friendly relations with Mohammedans, which scandalized pious Christians. He was a Hohenstaufen, and in Germany could count as a German. But in culture and sentiment he was Italian, with a tincture of Byzantine and Arab. His contemporaries gazed upon him with astonishment gradually turning into horror; they called him 'wonder of the world and marvellous innovator'. ~ Bertrand Russell

It matters less where you go than that you keep moving. ~ Rachel Hartman

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Adversity gives life the thrill of adventure. ~ Debasish Mridha

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. ~ John Gardner