Philosophy Quotes

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.

The sweetest things in life to you were just loaned, so how can you lose what you've never owned.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

I like the philosophy of the sandwich, as it were. It typifies my attitude to life, really. It's all there, it's fun, it looks good, and you don't have to wash up afterwards.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.

Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free.

Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

History should be written as philosophy.

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Philosophy is the highest music.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

What is left when honor is lost?

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.