Philosophical Quotes
The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.
How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.
Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.
It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.
As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
