Philosophical Quotes

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

A fault is fostered by concealment.

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel

Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

God bless America. But God, please help Canada.

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all the thinking men were.

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

The more I go into I, the more I fall out of I.

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be probably the way I'd describe it.

And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.