Top 1200 Buddhist Philosophy Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

My philosophy is that the club is more important than anyone!

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

I think it's a flawed philosophy to believe impunity when it's inappropriate.

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together.

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of trying / to let go, of lying. You don't sit / in a stiff chair and worry, you keep moving. / Postcards from the Alamo, the Alhambra. / ... / You, fainting at the Buddhist caves. / Climbing with thousands on the Great Wall, / ... / Having the time of your life, blistered and smiling. / The acid of your fear could eat the world.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.

When I started, athletes fought for honor, respect, philosophy.

I went to Yale and I was a physics and philosophy undergrad, graduated in 2005.

My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out of the practice of poetry, as does my Buddhist practice. Poetry is a very important element in the history of Buddhism in general and in Zen in particular. It was really Zen that motivated me to change the way I perceive the world.

As long as there are chances, we have to fight to the end. That's Madrid's philosophy.

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

Now you are on the Buddhist way. Keep up your meditation, as there is no instant illumination. The mind moves slowly into this. Do not become attached to your method. When, in the course of your meditation, your consciousness will have expanded and been transformed, you will then recognize that all the ways are valid ways.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.

Income is primarily determined by your philosophy, not by the economy

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

My philosophy has always been it's good to learn everything.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea of fixing of things that have been damaged. From a Buddhist point of view, things have been damaged because ignorance has intoxicated the mind.

But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered? Those who affirm this, should be careful not to fall into an absurdity that may overturn the foundations of all philosophy. For causes usually proceed in a continued chain from those that are more compounded to those that are more simple; when we are arrived at the most simple cause we can go no farther ... These most simple causes will you then call occult and reject them? Then you must reject those that immediately depend on them.

One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

Modi is marching forward on the basis of the BJP's philosophy.

I thought I would go into philosophy and political science.

My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

I don't have a philosophy in a nutshell; I would go on and on too much.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.