Philosophy Quotes

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

But what is great can only begin great.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

Art is whatever you can get away with.

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy

We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.

The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

Your music has been a powerful vehicle for your philosophies.

Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.