#philosophy

"True nirvana will come when we enlighten the world of awareness and higher consciousness."

"Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole."

"Love life, Live Love"

"Don’t set a goal to avoid pain or escape suffering; set a goal to live in joy and bliss to make this world joyful and blissful."

"The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit."

"We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land."

"You are the prettiest flower in the garden of my love. As the moon longs for the night, my heart longs for your heart."

"There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist."

"History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.”--from Past Present and Future are One"

"Particularity leads to peculiarity and then to pathological behavior. The three Ps. It is very insidious. You would eventually end up in a box. If you try to control your environment, it will control you. And everyone else around you will always have to be making adjustments to your maddening idiosyncracies...You are beginning to enslave yourself with your fussiness."

"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

"Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness."

"Occam's Razor [10w] I shaved with Occam's razor and he shaved with mine."

"Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind."

"This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?"

"One Philosophical Question, Two Faces [10w] 'Is life wort living?' is tantamount to'Does God exist?"

"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."

"This inhuman place makes human monsters."

"Teach a child to love his world deeply so that he may find the beauty and joy of life."