Philosophy Quotes

All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

Civilization is paralysis.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.

I am the captain of my pain.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

A body in movement is its philosophy.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

...you don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.

The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday.

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

Energy is eternal delight.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man