Philosophy Quotes

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

High thoughts must have high language.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

Imagination is the other end of Reality.

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.

Everything is beautiful in its own way.

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Love is an act of courage.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.