Ubuntu Philosophy Quotes

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.

Ubuntu is part of our culture Ubuntu was taught at home Ubuntu was taught in schools Ubuntu was taught in the community Ubuntu was taught in church. Today Ubuntu is nowhere to be found. Because we think being civil, educated, cool, and modern means forgetting who we are and what we are. Leaving behind our culture and heritage. Before we dress nice. Ubuntu is the root and heart of our heritage and that we need to celebrate every day. The world is getting messed up, dark and a bad place, because we lack Ubuntu. We all need the spirit of Ubuntu in us and that is our heritage.

He often quoted the proverb ‘Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu,’ which he would translate as ‘A person is a person because of other people,’ or ‘You can do nothing if you don’t get the support of other people.’ This was a concept common to other rural communities around the world, but Africans would define it more sharply as a contrast to the individualism and restlessness of whites, and over the following decades ubuntu would loom large in black politics. As Archbishop Tutu defined it in 1986: ‘It refers to gentleness, to compassion, to hospitality, to openness to others, to vulnerability, to be available to others and to know that you are bound up with them in the bundle of life.’15 Mandela regarded ubuntu as part of the general philosophy of serving one’s fellow men. From his adolescence, he recalled, he was viewed as being unusually ready to see the best in others. To him this was a natural inheritance: ‘People like ourselves brought up in a rural atmosphere get used to interacting with people at an early age.’ But he conceded that, ‘It may be a combination of instinct and deliberate planning.’ In any case, it was to become a prevailing principle throughout his political career: ‘People are human beings, produced by the society in which they live. You encourage people by seeing good in them.’16

Dharmanator (The Nonduality Sonnet) Pani, Agua, Water, it's all one; Ubuntu, Advaita, Ahava, it's all one; Creation, Consciousness, Evolution, it's all one; To fathom this you gotta unlearn all separatism. Division imposed by facts and intellect is just as degrading as those imposed by faith and fiction. True light of knowledge obliterates all divide, instead of turning mind into a dumpyard of reason. When a computer engineer becomes a monk, then that monk becomes a brain scientist, your revered paradigms are bound to crumble, as all institutions stand on grounds separatist. Apes may be stuck in prehistoric duality, Norm of the cosmos is nonduality. With your binary eyes of belief and disbelief, You'll never wake up to cosmic serendipity. Move past your psychoduality, If you wanna unfold human vastness. Faith and logic both will turn bland, Once you wake up to sapiosentience.

Pani, Agua, Water, it's all one; Ubuntu, Advaita, Ahava, it's all one; Creation, Consciousness, Evolution, it's all one; To fathom this you gotta unlearn all separatism.

I see Stoicism as a philosophy that helped people to contend with their positions and at the same time they tried to improve for their self’s sake, even if by little.

- Philosophy is perspective. Perspective is either healthy or unhealthy. A healthy perspective does not mean the situation is good necessarily. If you are in a bad situation, the healthy perspective is to act upon the probability that if you let yourself disintegrate, you will entropy in chaos.

Philosophy is about capturing the past into the present for our benefit.

Pani, Agua, Water, it's all one; Ubuntu, Advaita, Ahava, it's all one; Creation, Consciousness, Evolution, it's all one; To fathom this you gotta unlearn all separatism.

It is called ubuntu, which can be described as “others-centeredness.” The philosophy of ubuntu is that your humanity is inextricably linked to the humanity of others, and vice versa — “I am because we are.

A caring woman will always care about other people, even if the same care is not given to her. She does not give up on the true value of Ubuntu.

Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm to our environment. It's about doing more good towards our Planet Earth, Humanity, and future generations (Andres Vicente Durandeau Lalanne, Founder of the Ubuntu Group Ltd.)

There’s an old saying in South Africa that a single straw from a broom can be broken, but together they are strong. That concept is known as ubuntu, the philosophy that we are all part of an interconnected web, rooted in acts of kindness and generosity. It means the way we treat others is more important than our individual accomplishments. Essentially, you can’t be human all by yourself.