Great quotes: Psychology, Philosophy and Metaphysics

Remember, what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Socrates

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men.

Albert Einstein

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Epicurus

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It`s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It`s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

Plato

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
-Bob Marley

Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself.

Epictetus

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Blaise Pascal

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you`ll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

"The delusion of man, is that reality is not an illusion."

Airl quoting IS-BE Laozi, by way of Matilda O'Donnell MacElroy via Lawrence R. Spencer. While this quote's extra-terrestrial origin is debatable, it's relevance is not. Taken from the proper perspective, this single sentence has the power to change your life.

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If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn`t part of ourselves doesn`t disturb us.

Hermann Hesse

Heres some more that I absolutely love by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

"I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment of our lives are princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

"This is why we iterate quite often, when asked for specific information, that it pales to insignificance, just as the grass withers and dies while the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator redounds to the very infinite realms of creation forever and ever, creating and creating itself in perpetuity.

Why then be concerned with the grass that blooms, withers and dies in its season only to grow once again due to the infinite love and light of the One Creator? This is the message we bring. Each entity is only superficially that which blooms and dies. In the deeper sense there is no end to being-ness. " -Ra (soul complex)