Philosophy Quotes

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

belief is the death of intelligence.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

Optimism is my best defense.

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

Time the devourer of everything.

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each time I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

This Life is More than Just a read through.

My basic life philosophy is Harry Potter

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

My philosophy has always been simple: Believe in yourself.

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.