Top 1200 Buddhist Philosophy Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Happy people stay together in my philosophy.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness.

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

There's this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn't do TV.

'Trill' is a combination of 'true' and 'real.' It's my philosophy.

My design philosophy has always been eclectic.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Remain true to yourself and your philosophy.

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Every coach has his own philosophy.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

My basic life philosophy is Harry Potter

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished." In both Buddhist and Confucian writings of the philosophers of former times, there are also many missing chapters.

When I played, I always wanted to attack. This is my philosophy.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

I love period dramas - be it romance or philosophy.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

My philosophy is that there is no point in being sad or hating who you are.

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

I wasn't brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on - Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur'an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.

To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief; not to believe stupidly, or to rely only on people, textbooks, conjecture, reasoning, or whatever the majority believes, but rather to believe what we see clearly for ourselves to be the case. This is how it is in Buddhism.

The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

It is important to understand the philosophy of the city and country.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.