Philosophy Quotes

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

God’s love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself.

How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

My uncle developed the training philosophy. His idea of good tennis training is basically quite simple: you must try to gain time.

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

I feel that the internal worlds of women are not that well represented by society. It is not an immediate thing people think about - the imagination of women or women's philosophy.

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.

My philosophy is I take today, live it the best way I can and if I wake up I'll take another shot at tomorrow.

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

If love never lasts forever, then what's forever for?

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.