Philosophical Quotes

A confession has to be part of your new life.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

There's a snake lurking in the grass.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

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

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

To be is to be perceived

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.