philosophy

"I am an i poet."

"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does."

"It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin."

"Lend me your ears and you can borrow my mind"

"Be persistent. Success is not far away."

"You are a bubble in the ocean of life that has come to enjoy the glints of the morning light."

"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."

"For an act to be evil, you must first perceive it, process and then conceive it as such. Then these acts are effects. They’re not causes. And by this I mean that these acts are not of Stream. Now we ask the other question again. What does it take for something, here specifically Stream, to be good or evil?"

"I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful"

"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize."

"Ethics is a dream."

"...engaging with a work of ancient philosophy can be a two-way street; bringing it into a discussion can enrich that discussion, which also encouraging us to see the work in light of that discussion."

"A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little."

"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."

"No lake so still but it has its wave.No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are."

"On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again."

"The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker."

"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"When you desire to help, you will find a way to do it."