Philosophical Quotes

Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day.

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed

Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.

A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.

philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.

Make thought a whirlwind.

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

Guys, close your eyes.Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine she is dating a guy like you. Did you smile? No?Then change.

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.

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

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices...

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.

Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away.

Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?

I know that I know nothing

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on... The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

The Universe Conspires....to get what you truly desire

In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.

I am smart because I know I nothing.

I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.

I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth...

We can't change yesterday, but we can change tomorrow...

Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless

Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.

I had an enemy - myself. Getting rid of the ego-self, in came the Self. Now, here, there, everywhere is nothing else. Just One Self.

Were I but perfectly normal, I would just not be.

Remember, you are as dispensable as the most indispensable king of kings, the mighty lord of silly worldly men.

Live joyfully this life. Once gone, who knows if we ever get it back. Atheists think we do not. Mystics say you will. Either way, chill.

Sleep like you can never be deadDream as if you have a soul inside your head

There is nothing so special or boring nor there are any weak or strong things in this world. It is we and our surficial perception that creates these types of environment

I do not want to sound cynical or condescending, but your lips are moving, your mind unbending.

i closed my eyes and i loved you ... dreams are such beautiful things

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world