All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

“When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.”

“It’s no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You’ve got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they’ve got to come. You can’t force them.”

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”

“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”

“All knowledge is worth having.”

“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.”

“No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.”

“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”

“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”

“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.”