Philosophy Quotes

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

My philosophy has always been, do what you love and the money will follow.

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

There are no ordinary moments.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.