Right livelihood is not just a philosophical ideal. It is a practical, achievable reality. Finding and maintaining right livelihood does require regular, consistent action, but the steps are clear and the results immediate. —Claude Whitmyer More about this quote Tags: action reality philosophy livelihood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “philosophy” Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. —Will Cuppy More about this quote Tags: philosophy thinking brain Aristotle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There are only two mantras: yum and yuck. Mine is yum. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: philosophy fondness mantras Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If you study Japanese art, you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic, and intelligent who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspect of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole. —Vincent Van Gogh More about this quote Tags: attention politics intelligence philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: God humor philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. —William James More about this quote Tags: philosophy philosophers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. —Will Cuppy More about this quote Tags: philosophy thinking brain Aristotle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are only two mantras: yum and yuck. Mine is yum. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: philosophy fondness mantras Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you study Japanese art, you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic, and intelligent who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspect of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole. —Vincent Van Gogh More about this quote Tags: attention politics intelligence philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: God humor philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. —William James More about this quote Tags: philosophy philosophers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email