Philosophical Quotes

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.

The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the variety and dissension among the philosophical schools of antiquity.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

Technology at present is covert philosophy; the point is to make it overtly philosophical.

Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.

Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared.

Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?

That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa.

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

What is true belongs to me!

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason

One must steer, not talk.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological literature.

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end!

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.

So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.

Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter.

The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.