PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY (Explanation)

INSPIRATIONAL MOTIVATIONAL POSITIVE QUOTES

Your beliefs don't make you a better person. Your behaviour does.


WRITERS

A laughing man is (much) stronger than a suffering man (Gustave Flaubert)


PHILOSOPHERS

Schopenhauer: Schopenhauer never poses: he writes for himself, and no one likes to be deceived—least of all a philosopher who has set this up as his law: "deceive nobody, not even thyself," neither with the "white lies" of all social intercourse, which writers almost unconsciously imitate, still less with the more conscious deceits of the platform, and the artificial methods of rhetoric. 
Be yourself!: The man who will not belong to the general mass, has only to stop "taking himself easily"; to follow his conscience, which cries out to him, "Be thyself! all that thou doest and thinkest and desirest, is not thyself!"
 SCHOPENHAUER AS EDUCATOR  by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Adrian Collins


Descartes: I think, therefore I am / exist. 


Marcus Tullius Cicero: A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Abdolkarim Sorush (Soush, el lutero iraní): In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear. , el Lutero iraní y por Sorush, es el intelectual iraní más conocido en occidente.

Socrates: As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Sócrates (also Kierkgaard and Schopenhauer); As for me, all I know is (that) I know nothing; I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.


F. Nietzsche: Become who you are!; A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but (in order) for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy / aversión / dislike; He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Jean-Paul Sartre: If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Albert Einstein: If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.


ACTORS
In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him." - Pamela Anderson




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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus

Just Because Nobody Complains Doesn't Mean All Parachutes are Perfect.

Just because you're are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you. 

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

Maybe it's not about the happy ending. Maybe it's about the story.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. Aristotle  

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth / provoke your best. Epictetus

(Perhaps) that's how you learn, by answering questions / by asking.

Remaind yourself that it's OK not to be perfect.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

The key is (for you) to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Trust is like an eraser. It gets smaller and smaller after every mistake.
 
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

We love live, not because we're used to living but because we're used to loving.

What doesn't kill you (only / just) makes you stronger. I really believe that.

We learn from failure, not from success!

When I'm sad, I stop being sad and I be awesome instead

When I say I love you I actually do. I don't say it just to make conversation.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

Your beliefs don't make you a better person. Your behaviour does.

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*  * Be yourself * Be/Become who/what you are * Be who you are and say what you want/feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind * Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail * Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you (relaxed, comfortable) * Erasmus reminds us that everyone, however important and learned they might be, is a fool * For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first * He who has a why to live can bear almost any how * I think, therefore I am/exist * If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love * If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it * If you are afraid of loneliness, dont marry * If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough * If you don't have enough time, stop watching TV * It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain * It’s not about ideas it’s about making ideas happen * Know yourself. (Get to know yourself, (how) to know yourself is your first priority! * Life is like riding a bicycle. to keep your balance you must keep moving * Living / Life is no laughing matter, I mean living must be your whole occupation * Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated * Living without philosophising is literally (like) having your eyes closed without ever trying to open them * Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere * Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it * Not being able to govern events, I govern myself * Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding * Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter * Personality shapes our lives as profoundly as gender and race * Remembering is to live again (re-live those precious moments all over again!) * There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what you/one want(s), (and) the other is getting it * Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself * To be, or not to be: that is the question * The future influences the present just as much as the past * The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends * The more you know who you are and what you want the less you let things upset you * The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others * The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it * The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it * There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences * There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money * Try / Strive not to be(come) a man of success, but rather (try) to be(come) a man of value * We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves * We have art in order not to die of the truth * We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving * Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of / goes for fame * (I truly believe the saying / I strongly believe) What  doesn't kill you (will only) / (only)/(just) makes you stronger. I really believe that * Wisdom outweighs any wealth * Without music, life would be a mistake * You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it (just) does not exist * Remember, no matter where you go, there you are * We don't stop going to school when we graduate
  
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love * Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter * Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people * Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman (lacking human emotion, cold) * Erasmus reminds us that we have no freakin' idea why we are here and who we are, so we better be humble and respect each other * He who humbles himself will be exalted vs He who humbles himself wants to be exalted * Know yourself. (Get to know yourself, (how) to know yourself is your first priority! (1.Be aware of your strengths, weaknesses, likes and dislikes, 2. Observe and be aware of your moods, reactions and responses to what is happening around you, 3. Become aware of how these moods and emotions affect your state of mind, 4. Examine how you interact with others, 5. Observe how your environment affects you, 6. Knowing and understanding yourself better, in turn, leads to better decision making, setting and reaching appropriate goals and ultimately living a more productive life * Erasmus reminds us that everyone, however important and learned they might be, is a fool (In Praise of Folly): his judgement is faulty, his passions get the better of him, he is prey to superstition and irrational fear, he is shy whenever he has to meet new people, he drops things at elegant dinners ... This is deeply cheering, for it means that our own repeated idiocies don't have to exclude us from the best company. Looking like a prick, making blunders and doing bizarre things in the night doesn’t render us unfit for society, it just makes us a bit more like the greatest scholar of the northern European Renaissance * If it gets complex (then) you don’t understand yourself well enough * Study has always been for me the sovereign remedy against life's unpleasantness, since I have never known / experienced any trouble / sorrow / distress that an hour's reading did not relieve / eliminate  * The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently * There are some defeats more triumphant than victories * There are no facts, only interpretations  * When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too * Great minds think alike *