#philosophy

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all. ↗

— Criss Jami

#fortunate #fortune #happiness #inspirational #negativity

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#inspirational #philosophy #inspirational

The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.They arise from sense perception,and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed. ↗

— Anonymous

#life-philosophy #inspirational

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. ↗

— James Carroll

#meditation #philosophy #relaxation #tranquility #inspirational

People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm. ↗

— Subhan Zein

#inspirational-quote #literature #love #motivation #passion

I still lack a political, religious, and philosophical world view. I change it every month, so I'll have to limit myself to the description of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#politics #religion #writing #change

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book. ↗

— R.D. Laing

#philosophy #psychiatry #inspirational

Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love. ↗

— Osho

#life #love #philosophy #wisdom #inspirational

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #god #hearts #heaven

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. ↗

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

#inspirational #philosophy-of-science #science #inspirational