Philosophy Quotes

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Is it better to be loved or feared?

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists.

In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

To be is to be perceived

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.