Philosophical quotes that inspire...

The middle east used to be the factory of mathematics, until some Muslim arch-bishop-type got it into his head that mathematics was the devil. Ever since, theyve become mathematically inept.

That art thou–Sanskrit maxim.

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. And all the time your soul is craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights and Other Stories

It’s true too.

Al Ghazali. He introduced coercive religion to the Arabic. They have not recovered since.

“Humans are the devils of the earth, and animals the tormented souls." ~Schopenhauer

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

shivers

Warning issued to Quantum, and irrelevant posts deleted.


A Man Can Conquer The Whole World But His Greatest Victory Will Be Against Himself

I never follow the above one
-quantum

They should all become accountants, and put mathematics back on the Middle-Eastern map!

“If we are not a little bit uncomfortable everyday,we are not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone”-Jack Canfield

This quote really inspired me.Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Hard work is the key to success. A happy childhood isn’t always the best preparation for a successful and enjoyable adult life.

Let us not throw the baby out with the bathwater, Jack Canfield.
Some of that good stuff is still within our comfort zone.

But I realize what he meant.

My translation: “The modern world … will turn out to be a time in which the wishes teach fear when they come true.”


My translation:
“At the end, nevertheless, we depend, on the creatures which we made.”

My translation: “The human is an animal that needs an education.”

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Marcus Aurelius

Aye!!!

Arc : may PM something pressing re: Marcus Aurelius in the near future. It may be beyond the scope of posting here, and irrelevant objectively.

“We know more then we can tell”

Michael Polanyi