Philosophy

“Life is funny. Don't be serious about it...pero comedy is a serious business.”

“The idea of yoga in the Indian tradition and especially in Patanjali is the idea of a practice that we can undertake from differing perspectives.”

““The individual’s own inviolate spiritual experience” is “the central fact in Moral Philosophy and in our human philosophy generally.””

“I think, therefore I am.”

“Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.”

“If I would use any tool to find out why we're here I'm using music to do that.”

“But to unfit our students for the contemporary world ought in any case to be one of our educational aims.”

“El porvenir es el presente.”

“We believe that art is life and conversely, life is art.”

“Indian philosophy is rich and variegated. It is a multi-faceted tapestry and cannot be identified with one of its strands.”

“The real novelty of philosophical thinking lies in seeing new—in the epistemic sense of hitherto unperceived—connections between apparently unconnected conceptual questions or muddles, rather than in creating new concepts.”

“The universal scheme is woven in one piece and is permeable to consciousness.”

“El verdadero filósofo sólo admite en las ciencias naturales aquello a que ni la razón ni la experiencia se atreven a contradecir.”

““The brain also possesses the singular faculty of exciting in the human body various movements without the consciousness or assistance of the soul.””

“Mi se pare că oricine şi mai ales un gânditor, trebuie să sfârşească în forţă. Şi forţa gândului este formă.”

“The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else.”

“Décoloniser la philosophie, c'est cesser de croire qu'il existe des lieux où la philosophie éclot.”

“I call African philosophy a set of texts: the set, precisely, of texts written by Africans and described by their authors themselves as ‘philosophical’.”