I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

Source: Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine (October 1897).

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure….you are above everything distressing.

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There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Source: The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990); Chapter “Kindness and Compassion” page 52.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Source: This quote is from “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” (1987) by Douglas Adams.