Philosophy Quotes
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.
Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.
Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.
I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.
Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it away, providing for my family, and protecting it.
Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."