Philosophical quotes that inspire...

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

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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

“I dont sing because Im happy, Im happy because I sing.”

(William James)

I await it with bated breath, Meno.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

  • Epicurus

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The cosmos would be fairly chaotic if its laws could not operate without the sanction of human belief.

© Sri Yukteshwar

Yo Epi, but was it wrong to hope for it in the first place?? Maybe you wouldn’t have had it if you dint desire it dude.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Arc, this is a general answer, for what I originally intended, on review, it is beyond scope: waiting for a more opportune moment