"I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs."

--

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Legs Quotes

“Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.”

Source : Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.347, Courier Corporation
“When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.”
“Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life has been etched into our souls. Joy helps us see not what we are "going through," but what we are "growing to"-a greater sense of understanding, accomplishment, and enlightenment. Joy reveals to us the calm at the end of the storm, the peace that surpasses the momentary happiness of pleasure. If we keep our minds centered on joy, joy becomes a state of mind.”
“Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.”
“I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.”
“Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'Ã©tat, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.”
“I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.”
“People who are good to each other make each other good.”

You may also like:

Adam Smith
Philosopher
Baron de Montesquieu
Author
Denis Diderot
Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Educator
John Locke
Philosopher
Mary Wollstonecraft
Writer
Thomas Hobbes
Philosopher
Voltaire
Writer