Philosophy Quotes
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?
Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.
Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.
Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.