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I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Tantra is for the person who has gone beyond the rules. They've learned the rules so well that now they can go beyond them.
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.
His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.
A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.
One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.
There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.
Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.
If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.
Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.
Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.
I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.
It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.
That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.
Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.