The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Quote:- The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false beliefs, and faulty judgments, which are the causes of so much hardship and handicap. To heal the body one turns to the practitioner of the art of healing the body, but to heal the soul there is no doctor to turn to, and each of us is left to become that doctor unto himself. Yet, this need not stop us from exhorting others to imitate us in the godly art, in the forlorn hope that they might transform themselves into better citizens for Athens and better companions for us.
Plato: Letters to my Son
Author:- Neel Burton
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The disgusting smell of death of death is the result of certain airborne molecules with evocative names like cadaverine and putrescine. These molecules are not produced by death, however, but by life growing on death. After an animal dies, its cells self destruct and become food for the body's resident bacteria. They chew through the walls of the gut and spread through the body. They release cadaverine and putrescine merely as byproducts of their metabolism. These molecules are not actually dangerous to us. They won't kill us like a whiff of sarin or cyanide. Yet our ancestors evolved a keen sensitivity to these molecules, along with an instinctive response to recoil at the merest whiff.
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
Author:- Carl Zimmer
Category:- science
Quote:- The distance between dreams and reality is called Fate
WHO AM I
Author:- Hari krishnan Nair
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.
Author:- Anthony Liccione
Category:- time
Quote:- The distinction between objective and personal thinking must truly first be learned. Many people never learn this (look at our colleagues in the ministry! among others).
Letters and Papers from Prison
Author:- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The distinctive features of the world's civilisations are not simply and solely the giraffe and the city of Rome, as the children may perhaps have been led to imagine on the first evening, but also the elephant and the country of Denmark, beside many other things. Yes, everyday brought its new animal and its new country, its new kings and its new gods, its quota of those tough little figures which seem to have no significance, but are nevertheless endowed with a life and a value of their own, and may be added together or subtracted from one another at will. And finally poetry, which is grater than any country ; poetry with its bright palaces.
Independent People
Author:- Halldór Laxness
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The Divine Being, God gives breath to all living things.
Author:- Lailah Gifty Akita
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The Domino effect is strange; all fall when one falls but to get back up, everyone, on your own. To effect, be the cause.
Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
Author:- Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Author:- J.M. Barrie
Category:- hope
Quote:- The doors of heaven are next to the doors of hell and if you really want to reach heaven then go to hell first
Author:- Anuj Jasani
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Author:- Benjamin Franklin
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Because the truth is, we should not all see everyone as the same! We are not the same! We are made of different colours and we have different cultures. We are all different! But the key to this door is to look at these differences, respect these differences, learn from and about these differences, and grow in and with these differences. We are all different. We are not the same. But that's beautiful. And that's okay.In the quest for unity and peace, we cannot blind ourselves and expect to be all the same. Because in this, we all have an underlying belief that everyone should be the same as us at some point. We are not on a journey to become the same or to be the same. But we are on a journey to see that in all of our differences, that is what makes us beautiful as a human race, and if we are ever to grow, we ought to learn and always learn some more.
Author:- C. JoyBell C.
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The downs in life only make you appreciate the ups much more.
Author:- The Britiannic Scribian
Category:- motivational,hope
Quote:- The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.
Author:- Stephen Hawking
Category:- science
Quote:- The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
Author:- Tom Hiddleston
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The Dreamfencekittens wait to jump into my dreamseach time I visit heaventhey jump over a dreamfencered clouds are ready for lovingas I lovemy love paints my catsour minds are somehow stuck togetheras we dream togetherof our own heavenamd after tjeu cir; i[inside my sweaterwe knit our own heavens.
Author:- Akiane Kramarik
Category:- poetry