My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.
There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.
Individual psychotherapy - that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.
Words without power is mere philosophy.
There will be no end to the troubles of states or of humanity itself till philosophers become kings in this world or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?