Philosophy Quotes

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

I was always a winner, but just didn't know it.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

We call it drunk philosophy. You have a few beers and you become a lot smarter.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.

The secret of life is in art.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

My philosophy is the same as a Samurai: To hit without getting hit.