Giannis Delimitsos Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. The naive thinks that all wisdom lies within and no one can teach him. The wise became wise, because he accepted his nescience and opened his eyes to see the Wisdom and the Beauty around him. A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

2. What we call happiness and unhappiness are no more than feelings floating over the innermost halls of the soul; they are pure emotional and mental states, and thus they can never be fake, regardless of the veracity or falsity of the condition that caused them.

3. Wisdom is not to know everything, but to know enough in order to stop taking yourself and the world too seriously. Wisdom could be the last and eternal Laughter!

4. A book that has been written has very little value. What matters the most is the book that has been read, sometimes many years or centuries after its creation. It’ s like a diamond; resting deeply in the mud, it will never shine until someone picks it up and makes it clean.

5. A good deed has to do with the results, altruism with the intentions. The good deed is, of course, what matters for the person in need or for society. After all pure altruism is rare and without a kind of benefit for the benefactor – even if that is just a pleasant feeling – charity would be almost impossible. A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

6. A good proverb is often the marriage of a Truth to an Enchantment, where Humor is the groomsman and Irony the priest. A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

7. Another good thing that philosophy offers us is the invigorating company of the great dead of the past, while – at the same time – it keeps us away from the soulless and trifling affairs of the alive ones. A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

8. Believing that it is in the human nature to seek truth more than it seeks hope and alleviation, because a few individuals were staunch truth-seekers, is to believe that, because parrots can speak, it is in the nature of the birds to speak!Heraclitus, Galileo, Darwin, Spinoza, Einstein and a few thousands more against the about 117 billions who have walked the Earth…

9. Coming face to face with Ugliness can be a misfortune or a blessing. We can imitate it and be one with it; or we can feel repugnance and appreciate the Beauty once and for all! A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

10. Death may be seen as a generous gift that is offered to us as a reward for our willingness to endure life and to play the game until the end. And if it’s true that after death there is only death, non-existence, that would be the holiest of all the blessings! A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

11. Idol worship is so deeply ingrained in the human brain synapses that it would be almost impossible to be bereft of it. And in absence of an external icon we are always going to look for it inside us. In fact, in many regions of the world this process is already in progress resulting in the pandemic of self-admiration and self-deification of our modern times. A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

12. In Love we fall and in God we trust. The two have something special in common: people adore both conditions despite their irrationality or, to be more precise, because of their irrationality. For what is irrational keeps us often effectively in distance from the pure knowledge and perception of things. A purity that, exactly as pure heroin, can put us in grave danger, especially in high doses. A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

13. Of course, 1+1 makes 2 and blue to yellow gives green. But if we forget for a while the abstract knowledge or the laws of nature, and focus on the knowledge of particular situations, events, persons etc., then we can observe that it is almost never: I know; it is practically always: I believe.Humans and all the intelligent creatures of this world operate through beliefs, more or less justified, more or less true, more or less convincing. Because the biological apparatus of one hundred percent accuracy has not yet been invented in nature. And it never will. A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

14. Patience, among other things, also means to appreciate the time we have and to create the time we don’t have.

15. Science and Metaphysics show us part of what is. Logic and Epistemology help us interpret this part and understand how much of it we can really know. And finally, Ethics teaches us how to embrace this knowledge and how to cherry-pick only those things that will give us endurance and contentment in the long run, avoiding those that may keep our hearts buried in the ground; how to live well and decently and how to help the society function properly.

16. She who believes that science will inescapably solve humanity’s oldest problems and radically change the human lot in this world is the one who desperately needs a substitute for religion or magic. The true lover of science is she who is aware of its shortcomings and limitations, yet still cherishes it for whatever gifts it offers us.

17. The day you’ll start craving for a savior to deliver you is the day you’ll welcome any tyrant into your soul. Freedom is the game of the unsaved and the unsavable. A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

18. The naive thinks that all wisdom lies within and no one can teach him. The wise became wise, because he accepted his nescience and opened his eyes to see the Wisdom and the Beauty around him. A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

19. The only real freedom the human animal can achieve is the release from meanings. If we don’t have anywhere in particular to go, we can never be lost; if we have nothing to prove, we can never fail.

20. The practice of philosophy is often a tenacious effort in self-treatment and, to be honest, not always as efficacious as we would have wished it to be.

21. The self that represents me in society is a combination of what I am, what I think I am and what I pretend to be.

22. The self which represents me in society is a combination of what I am, what I think I am and what I pretend to be.

23. The wise man can never be offended. If the comment mirrors a truth, or an aspect thereof, there can be no offense whatsoever. To the contrary, such thing will be welcomed with delight!And even if a discourteous person attacks the wise man with lies and profane language, either because of malice or because of ignorance, there is absolutely no reason for the wise man to be disturbed. Understanding and compassion for this unfortunate fellowman will be his most probable response.

24. There is goodness in every woman, in every man. Some have not learned to use it yet. A part of them never will. Unfortunately, they lack the ways or the means to display it to the world.

25. We say that a human being is a person and a distinctive, fixed self with a name and a life. He has an identity. But what is this self really made of, except from the basic elements such as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, phosphorus etc. and their subatomic particles? If a person is a specific, static, unchanged entity and existence, then what if an accident or a disease completely alters his body features? What if fear or madness changes his thoughts and perceptions? If dementia takes away his memories, or if drugs alter his emotions? And what if life circumstances, good or bad luck, modify his motives, his plans and his desires? Is it still the person we say he is? Or is selfhood a ghost, a useful fiction of the brain? An ever-shifting kaleidoscope of thoughts, feelings and perceptions? Flashes of hopes and desires? A bundle of alternating opinions and ideologies, of conflicting instincts and urges? If we take away all these from him, what would be left behind? If every drop of the ocean evaporates, is not the whole ocean gone? The immutable selfhood is a very old illusion and the last of illusions we ‘re going to abandon; if we ever will… A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

26. When we get a new idea — or remember an old one – and we cling to it and try to spread it with evangelical zeal, then we no longer have control over it. In fact, it's the idea itself that possesses us and becomes our new master. And we end up blindly serving the idea and forgetting the cause that brought it to us in the first place.

27. Wisdom is not to know everything, but to know enough in order to stop taking yourself and the world too seriously. Wisdom could be the last and eternal Laughter!