philosophy

"Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument."

"I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us."

"Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole."

"Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul."

"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin."

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

"And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with."

"The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid."

"the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger."

"Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner."

"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."

"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"

"when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences."

"Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk"

"Philosophers have often held disputeAs to the seat of thought in man and bruteFor that the power of thought attends the latterMy friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter,And spite of dogmas current in all ages,One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)"

"I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think."

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

"When you love yourself endlessly, you will find that the whole world loves you too."

"Stercus accidit."

"To enjoy the beauty of love, be a big person in this small world."