quotes about Great Philosophy

“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”

Source : 'The Progress of Poesy' (1757) l. 110

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”

“However, the religious extremists, especially the pro-Taliban organizations, they mobilized and instigated the Islamists to come on the streets and put pressure on the government to stop any reform on the blasphemy law.”

“Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.”

“Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.”

“I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.”

“Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't.”

“There are those that hate and those that love, it all works out the same.”

“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.”

“If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.”

Source : Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.49, Sophia Institute Press