Philosophy Quotes
The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.
That’s the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.
I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.
It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
There are desires that we all want to achieve, but remember respect is most greatest to receive.
If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism
