philosophy

"The senseless think that I am the unmanifest that has come to manifestation; they do not know my higher being, immutable, supreme."

"Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough."

"These days I feel my otherness in every situation…If I go to Korea, there are reminders that I’m not fully Korean. I can speak it – and I look it there – but there are cultural and historical things t…"

"A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world — intuitions that are qu…"

"All that matters is the pleasure-pain axis. Pain and pleasure disclose the world's inbuilt metric of value. Our overriding ethical obligation is to minimise suffering. After we have reprogrammed the b…"

"The struggle is lost ... once the logic of power becomes the logic of the revolutionary process, once the negative of refusal is converted into the positive of power-building. ... If we revolt against…"

"The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to th…"

"I didn't mean you were stupid. It's just that you're not logical, which isn't the same thing at all."

"to be completely empty of ideas at the moment of setting brush to canvas, the head being just as empty as the canvas."

"I thought about it for a moment. I hated wetbacks, and was tired of their culture being shoved down my throat in L.A., where I lived. I mean, really, how would Mexico feel if Americans illegally lived…"

"Many of these constitutional violations have become routine. For instance, even though it’s illegal for police officers to detain a person – even briefly – without reasonable suspicion, it’s become co…"

"The culture supports serial monogamy, and I think I had plenty of that, and I think I was reasonably monogamous in a serial way. But I'm not a good compromiser. I think I don't have the knack for that…"

"An omnipotent being could rule the course of this world in such a way that none of us should discover the hidden springs of action. He need not make the sun stand still upon Gibeon. He could do all th…"

"I've watched and read the public reaction to the slaughter of nine people, nine African American people by a white supremacist gunman who warrants the description of a terrorist. As I read that commen…"

"A historical and ideological fact that I consider almost a "proof" of loyalty in the bolshevism ideals: the matter of Stalin. Distrust those who disparage or even forget the figure of the continuer of…"

"The Chopra Center for Wellbeing"

"Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones."

"I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; — one, that I have lost all the names, — the other, that I have spent all the money."

"Now these three concepts form the foundation-stones of the philosophy of materialism and determinism to which the physics of the nineteenth century seemed to lead. Thus, as soon as any one of the thre…"

"There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in his eyrie, high aloft; they are like the strong mountaineer, w…"