Philosophy Quote by Shunya — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Understand the difference between mystical art and mystical knowldge. Devotional music, life stories of mystics and gods, images, paintings etc. may temporarily transport you to mystical world but they can't give you mystical powers. Art is beautiful. Knowledge is boring. Ancient sages tried to mix art with knowledge. We discarded the knowledge but kept the art.”

“Those who accept a situation find a way to get out of it. Those who try to run away from it suffer like a fly trapped inside a net.”

“If you have seen everything in life, you want to say to people, "Cut the drama and come to the point.”

“Rebelling is just obeying in reverse.”

“You're hungry, you see food, and you get excited. You never question where did the hunger come from. You didn't sign up for this endless cycle of hunger and food, problem and solution, question and answer. You're the eternity.”

“Strong souls face painful tragedies because the universe honours their strength by pulling out its most fearsome weapons against them.”

“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.”

“There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.”

“Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey”

“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing the explanation of natural phenomena to the smallest possible number of primitive natural laws; and, in mathematics, of unifying the treatment of different topics by using a generalization. Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness. I want to say here that it can never be our job to reduce anything to anything, or to explain anything. Philosophy really is “purely descriptive.”

“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.”