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4485 Philosopher Quotes

So as long as the mind is comparing, there is no love, and the mind is always judging, comparing, weighing, looking to find out where the weakness is. So where there is comparison, there is no love.

Mind Love Judging Weakness
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Ability Observe Evaluating Intelligence
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Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

Friend Death You Alone
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Know Yourself Self-knowledge Achievement
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Measure Health Sick Society
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The significance of life is living.

Significance Life Living
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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Begin Understand Change Transformation
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear

Constant Belief Indication Fear
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It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Mind Free Old Joy
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Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Acquiring Knowledge Form Imitation
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If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Understand Problem Answer Seperate
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To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.
Understand Yourself Wisdom
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The only freedom is the freedom from the known

Freedom Known
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

You Afraid Think Know
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Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

Happiness Strange Effort Purity
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I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ... The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

Truth Path Religion Follow
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Thought Cunning Clever Convenience
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[on the secret to a happy, content life Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

Secret Happy Life Happens
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It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

Love Action World Will
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Be a light unto oneself

Light Oneself
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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Ideologies Religious Political Word
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We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

Defensive Belief Dogmas Worship
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Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

Passion Frightening Know You
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To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

Understand Life End Education
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Analysis does not transform consciousness.

Analysis Transform Consciousness
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The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Innocence Mind Incapable Hurt
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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

You World Transformation
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Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.

Order Conformity Pattern Circumstances
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Every something is an echo of nothing

Every Something Echo Nothing
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You can feel an emotion, just don't think that it's so important.

Feel Emotion Think Important
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

Error Failure Adjust Actuality
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I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.

Discovered Dwell Emotions Know
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There is nothing we need to do that isn't dangerous.

Nothing Need Dangerous
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

Art Experimental Tries Living
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

Value Judgements Business Curiosity
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Poetry Realize Possess Nothing
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

Business Life Living Art
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All great art is a form of complaint

Great Art Form Complaint
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

Get Yourself Cage Find
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones

Understand People Frightened Ideas
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Good music can act as a guide to good living.
Good music Act Guide Living
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

We Need Destroy Past
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

Act Listening Fact Composing
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My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

Favorite Music Time Quiet
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Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Ideas Thing Happens
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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens

Art's Purpose Quiet Mind
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

Happy Manage Enjoy Think
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

Music Edifying Time Soul
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.

Music Means Transportation
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We only think when confronted with a problem.

We Think Confronted Problem
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