137 Quotes by Elmar Hussein

7. Philosophy is not science, but this does not mean that it is less good than a science. Philosophy is an alternative language by which it is possible to communicate with reality. Speaking more than one language makes you more open-minded. Philosophy can open up new opportunities to understand quite different and unexpected aspects of reality.

It is very difficult to change the mind of a person, but it is more difficult to make a person think using his own brain.

There is no need to share your thoughts with a closed-minded person simply because his mind does not belong to himself; his brain just a container of the ideas which belong to others.

Don't live in the past. Enjoy the present moment and think of future. And happiness will follow you.

Most people do their best to look like a democrat. But the truth is that they are not democrats by nature, they are true imitators, because democracy has come into fashion in modern civilization.

Love is a sensible phenomenon, but not intelligible. You cannot know whether you love or not; you can only feel it in your heart and soul. Love as a knowable phenomenon is not an act of love itself, but a rational 'illusory' design of the intellect, an act of psychological adaptation to the environment. To support the existential meaning of your being in this environment, your intellect provides you with an artificial mental programming system.

You are what is going on in your brain. Everything else is illusion.

The most difficult is the first step to evil. After you have taken this step, evil acquires a habitual way of life.

Success has nothing to do with morality.