Philosophy Quotes

My philosophy of life is that I am deeply, deeply serious about my work and for the rest I like to have a few laughs.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.

Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.

Look poor, think rich.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.