Quotes that Changed my Life by Four of the Most Brilliant Thinkers Ever to Live on Earth

in #philosophy7 years ago

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~ Nikola Tesla ~


If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.

~ Carl Jung ~


Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

If you are a gifted person, it doesn’t mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back.

What you resist, persists.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

~ Albert Einstein ~


Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, then you don't understand it yourself.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

~ Mark Twain ~


If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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