Philosophy Quotes

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Do what you love and the rest will come.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

Tantra is for someone who practices all the paths because all the paths encompass tantra.