The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
It is then by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy that we can by checking them as we go along and comparing them trace out finally the body that produced them.
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same and perfectly understand it - without having regard to any religion or opinion.
Religion and philosophy philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
To become a popular religion it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
No philosophy no religion has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it he lives his religion as much as he is able otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.
There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
Individual psychotherapy - that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.
Words without power is mere philosophy.
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers its poets and its artists.
There will be no end to the troubles of states or of humanity itself till philosophers become kings in this world or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?