Philosophy

Philosophy is just a way of exspressing oneself in a broader way.It is an individuals way of thinking that has been said in a way to encompass many.As what I have just said is my philosophy on philosophy.No philosophy is right for all nor is it meant to be.You take what you can out of a philosophy and do with it what you will while disregarding the rest.The whole point of philosophy is to give you a different or maybe more enlightened view of things.Hopefully to inspire you to create your own philosophies and live by them.Maybe oneday to be shared by others.Now what I have compiled here is my favorite philosophy of many different subjects.Then under that I have put my own philosophy on the subject.Now these are just things that I am coming up with as I type so please don"t look for any great revelations here.We will go alphabetically in order of subjects.

Advice-

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

Benjamin Franklin

Never give advice on something that you have not lived yourself.

Age-

To me,old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

Age in relation to years of life is only a measuring stick.Age in relation to love is not a matter of consequence unless it becomes perverse.Age is of no relation to intelligence what so ever.

Ambition-

No bird soars too high,if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

Ambition can be the death of many a people.People can be the death of many an ambition.

Anger-

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

John F. Boyes

Why suffer thru anger when we live such short lives.If its anger you feel let it out then it can be dealt with and put in the past.

Charity-

Charity is a debt of honor.

ImmanuelKant

Charities are only a bother when you are not the charity.

Children-

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

Richard Henry Dana

What is the meaning of life ,you ask?Children I say.They are the only thing that we can live on thru forever.

Conformity-

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Anonymous

I am a conformist of non-comformity.

Conscience-

Conscience is but the pulse of reason.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You need no religion or teachings to live a good life.You need but conscience and common sense.

Conversation-

Conversation should touch everything but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Good conversation is the art of a well trained mind.Bad conversation is a sign of a mind yet to be trained in the art.

Cowardice-

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Cowards are to me as liars,backstabbers,perverts,woman beaters,child molesters and thieves are.All are without honor and a man without honor is not a man in my eyes but a thing to be crushed under foot.

Dcceit-

Oh,what a tangled web we weave,When first we practice to deceive!

Sir Walter Scott

Here is a simple fact that I know to be true.If you lie it will come back to haunt you.Just a simple fact.

Destiny-

He that's born to be hanged needn't fear water.

Irish Proverb

There is but one thing certain.You will live long enough to fulfill your destiny.

Eternity-

All that lives must die,passing through nature to eternity.

William Shakespeare

Eternity only exists for the eternal.

Face-

In the faces of men and women I see God.

Walt Whitman

Look to the faces of the old to see the ways of life.

Family-

No matter how many communes anybody invents,the family always creeps back.

Margaret Mead

You must always look out for family no matter what.But just because someone is family that doesn't make them your friend.Also,you family history is what you are at birth.Your family future is what you are in life.So when you die leave your family future better than it was when you where in its present.

Friendship-

Friendship is eternal.

Anonymous

Friendship is the purest thing there is.You think how much you hold family dear but ponder this.Your family you are born with you have no choice who they are but a friend is someone you decide to bring into your life.So when you call someone your friend choose your words carefully.Friend is a very powerful word and with it comes great responsibilities.

Giving-

Nobody shoots at Santa Clause.

Alfred E. Smith

Give enough of yourself to work to get by.Give enough of yourself to the world to help.Give enough to your friends and family to love them.Give all of yourself to the one you love to be loved with all of the one you love.

Habits-

The worst boss anyone can have is a bad habit.

Monta Crane

If it were not for bad habits,I would have no use for habits.I have bad habits therefor I am.

Happiness-

Real happiness is cheap enough,yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Hosea Ballou

Happiness is in making of people around you happy.

Hate-

A time to love,and a time to hate.

Ecclesiastes 3:8

We have such little time here.Why spend time hating.Think to yourself if you had done to someone what they have done to you would you want them to hate you.

Heart-

I must have two favorites here.

Whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of.

Charles H. Parkhurst

Feel with your heart,trust with your mind and love with your soul.

Heaven-

Behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Luke 17:21

Our strong want to believe in Heaven stems from our great fear of death.

Idleness-

There is no place in civilization for the idler.None of us has any right to ease.

Henry Ford

There is no such thing as idleness.Even when you sleep you are doing something.

Individuality-

Had I to carve an inscription on my own tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual"

Soren Kierkegaard

You spend your whole life trying to be an individual.Only to join the masses when you die.

Inferiority-

No man can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You are inferior to no man as long as you have,or are striving to,reach your goals.

Infinity-

If the doors of perception were cleansed,everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

William Blake

Infinite wisdom is achieved at the end of the infinite journey.

Intelligence-

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

Michelangelo

You can seem as intelligent as you want but you can only be as intelligent as you try and be.

Kindness-

Kindness consists of loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Your small bit of kindness can be anothers light of day.

Life-

Whoever lives true life will love true love.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Live the life for a life to live.

Love-

Love hath swifter wings than time.

Edmund Waller

Love is the utopian dream realized.

Man-

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington

Man is nothing but the second coming of the dinosaur.

Manners-

What better school for manners than the company of virtuous women?

David Hume

The saddest thing I see in the birth of the new man is the death of old manners.

Marriage-

Love is the flower;marriage is the fruit.

Finnish Proverb

Marriage is the strongest institute ever built by man when it is built on a foundation of true love.

Music-

How monotonous the sounds of the forest would be if the music came from only the top ten birds.

Dan Bennett

Music is the greatest maker of peace,love and happiness there is.

Quarrel-

The second word makes the quarrel.

Japanese proverb

When next you find yourself quarreling with your one true love.Stop,and think,what you could be doing instead.

Soul-

My soul is God,my soul is eternity.

Egyptian Book of the Dead

A persons soul is nothing more than the way a person presents his personality to others.

Talent-

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Hector Berlioz

We all have talent.Its the ability to make that talent known that some lack.

Temptation-

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than the proper bringing-up,a sound set of values-and witnesses.

Franklin P. Jones

Get rid of temptation.Don't tempt but do.If being tempted give in.

Thinking-

I think; therefore I am.

Rene Descartes

If I took time to think about everything that I could do.Then I wouldn't be able to do half the things I have done.

Work-

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

Give work what you must but give life all you can.

Writing-

Of all that has been written,I love only that which was written in blood.

F.W. Nietzsche

The way to write with feeling is to give your heart your hand.

Ok,well I hope you enjoyed these and maybe this has inspired you to keep a record of your own ways of thought.After all the only reason to tell your thouhgts to others is to inspire them to react.Take care.