Philosophical Quotes

Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

Fate will find a way.

The medicine increases the disease.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

We can't all do everything.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Fury itself supplies arms.

I shudder when relating it.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.

To be, or not to be: what a question!

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

If you think like others, how can you be sure you're thinking at all?

Where men can't live gods fare no better.

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this.

Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

We like the idea of being a little divisive without making it into some kind of philosophical musical approach, and maybe we can convert some people to our view of the world.

Humility is the daughter of truth.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.