Philosophy Quotes

"All that a person can find in this earthly life are fragments and shadows."

"We are all meant to be contemplatives in the midst of action."

"The path to truth requires humility and openness."

"The universe speaks to those who know how to listen."

"The silent mind is the gateway to truth."

"The universe is alive with the presence of the divine."

"In our folly we make much of such trifles."

"God showed me that sin is no shame to man but honor."

"The highest virtue of the mind is to understand things under the aspect of eternity."

"What is determination but the negation of a thing? And what is negation without affirmation?"

"The mind is eternal insofar as it understands all things under the aspect of eternity."

"The person who knows himself knows the universe; the person who knows the universe knows himself."

"What we call evil is often merely the incompleteness of our understanding."

"The mind's eternity consists in its participation in infinite understanding."

"Materialism is the great evil of the world."

"Detachment is the highest and holiest work."

"The divine essence is not in anything, but everything is in the divine essence."

"Being is more noble than becoming."

"The soul is created in one place, but it finds itself everywhere."

"The soul becomes what it contemplates."

"Philosophy without practice is empty theory."

"Philosophy helps us ask the deepest questions."

"Philosophy deepens understanding."

"You are not separate from the whole. You are the whole."

"You are here to recognize yourself in all things."

"The boundary between good and evil is permeable. Everyone contains both."

"Philosophy that ignores suffering is philosophy disconnected from reality."

"Man's last and highest leave-taking is letting go of God."

"Creatures are not other than God; they are God in manifestation."

"The soul speaks in a language that has no words."