Philosophy Quotes - Life is really Simple
“Life
is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
―
Confucius
“Morality
is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
―
Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
“Well,
I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted
with the butterflies.”
―
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“I
must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can
defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no
decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your
weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind,
always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine
the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a
wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open
yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent
who defeated you.”
―
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“It
is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow
old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
―
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
“Like
all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
―
Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
“A
serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of
jokes.”
―
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Is
it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect
understanding of another?
We
can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person,
but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince
ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything
important about anyone?”
―
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Be
like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to
the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within
you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty
your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it
becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put
it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be
water, my friend.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The
important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for
existing.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Be
kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
―
Socrates
“Let
children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents
and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't
have as much fear.”
―
Judy Blume
“Sometimes
I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a
true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says,
"We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.”
―
Charles M. Schulz
“Nothing
was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism,
health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies,
biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism,
India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga,
copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back,
Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New
York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things
to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”
―
Charles Bukowski, Women
“It's
not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in,
physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been
my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language,
literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade
me.”
―
Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
“Man
suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
―
Alan Wilson Watts
“I
would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The
true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as
the most dangerous plaything.”
―
Freidrich Neitzsche
“The
first duty of a man is to think for himself”
―
Jose Marti
“Today
a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a
slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself
subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are
the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
― Bill Hicks
