This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?
If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.
Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources; only success can tell one from the other.
From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption — but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance
Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; they have only one option and that is to merge with it.
There is no key to open the heart of another – except curiosity.
Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.
Look. If I touch you with this hand, I can remember touching you, but I can’t prove I ever did. If reality is nothing more than what is in our mind…then what is the difference between this world and a dream?
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That’s not fundamentalism, that’s the law of non-contradiction.
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman, as it rips up political cultures, deletes traditions, dissolves subjectivities, and hacks through security apparatuses, tracking a soulless tropism to zero control. This is because what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy’s resources.
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
Measure your day not by the money you’re earning but by the unconditional love that you’re giving away.
The obsessive desire for a passionate relationship is usually a reflection of a lack of love for oneself. The manic need to pursue a passionate career is rooted in an intense unhappiness with present reality. They are a series of soothing thoughts and deflection methods and escape routes: The monster everyone’s running from, of course, is themselves.
To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Kitalah planet yang hidup itu, Sophie! Kitalah kapal besar yang berlayar mengelilingi matahari yang membakar alam raya. Tapi kita masing-masing adalah juga sebuah kapal bermuatan gen-gen yang melayari kehidupan. Jika kita sudah membawa muatan ini dengan selamat ke pelabuhan berikut –berarti hidup kita tidak sia-sia.
Normal is over rated, and so is spelling.You want perfection? Go out and buy a spell check, but know this: Spellcheck won’t keep you warm at night or love you unconditionaly. I will stick to being abnormal and a bad speller. Makes life more interesting. After all, what fun is there in being normal or perfect?
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
I’m probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don’t think anyone really knows. You’ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there’s no point thinking about it.
YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise…embrace the entity of yourself…you are a puzzle piece and you are meant to be puzzling.
If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.
No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
The only person who needs forgiveness is the one who doesn’t deserve it.
They didn’t realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn’t sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.
What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
If you took the monsters’ point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.
Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
You don’t seem mad at all,’ she said.But I am, although I’m undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?
Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn’t have to live on lentils.Diogenes replied, But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn’t have to flatter Dionysus.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father’s. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.
As long as there are countries with borders in this world, nationalism would remain the highest virtue.
For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical will. All are horribly wrong. More than anything, man seeks meaning in his life. And in that meaning, he seeks superiority over others.
Borderless world is a good idea. But unless all countries of the world agree on that, it is mere idealism. A fancy idea which looks good only on paper.
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who go with the flow, where destiny takes them, and those who fight their fate. While the formers are blessed with happiness, the latter achieve something far greater–fulfilment.
Sooner or later, at some point in your life, you’ll realize that money isn’t everything. Nor is happiness. No! We are not here to be happy. The aim of our life should be fulfilment. More than happiness, man seeks meaning. And when he finds it, his life becomes fulfilling.
Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value–we see the world through value colored eyes. We do not know how to look at things neutrally, value-free. So, it’s not a question of giving up all values, it’s simply a question of which values.
… is it truly possible to steal a life, if… the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who ‘murders’ does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo – that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn’t be decent if you weren’t intelligent; you couldn’t be intelligent if you couldn’t think—and who could think in all this racket? Add the stench to the confusion of cramped quarters, and who could be self-respecting?
You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.
My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.
Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?
Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.
SCREW CHILDREN! That’s the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don’t comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on screw children, and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.
Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.