2,723 Quotes About Philosophical

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

Do you know how a pearl comes to be?""Oysters make them, from a bit of sand.""Aiyah. From a bit of sand." He rolled the pearl between his fingers. "All pearls begin as something unpleasant that the oysters cannot expel from themselves, even though they may want to. So they embrace these things that will not leave them, shaping them and smoothing away the sharp edges, until over time, they make of these unwanted things great treasures.

It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.

Films that make you feel are one kind, films that make you think are superior, but films that make you experience are the ultimate because they include former two as well.

When I travel in airplane or the subway train, I feel my 'self ' is constant. In both cases I cover the time and space, hence the 'Self ' is out of these realms.

Sometimes it's the stone in shoe that causes trouble, which we misinterpret as the stony path.