🏺 Philosophy

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

“No great thing is created suddenly.”

“No mans knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”

“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.”

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

“The world is not what I think, but what I live through.”

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.”

“We are all fools in love.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap.”

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

“What does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.”

“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”

“I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live”

“The question is not who is going to let me; it is who is going to stop me.”

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”

“Where there is power, there is resistance.”

“Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.”

“The soul that is without a fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”

“The only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing.”

“Language is the house of being.”

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.”

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world.”

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, that will be enough.”

“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just the economy.”

“Man is condemned to be free.”

“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

“Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight; but there is a beauty for the hearing too.”