Philosophy Quotes

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.

I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness.

The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot