Philosophy Quotes

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. Th...

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, an...

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The ...

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the o...

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class societ...

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stu...

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide in...

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll e...

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each perso...

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to not...

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing...

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ...

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ...

Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become ...

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is ...

They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tin...

To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the...

What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inad...

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural ...

...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no ...

Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, ...

[Wither] knew that everything was lost. It is incredible how little this knowledge moved him. What h...

The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Chris...

His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically im...

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met ...

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were uneducated. But, as it is...

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into...

Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can...

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the sol...

La prueba de ausencia no es prueba de ausencia

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant fo...

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu...

We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our or...

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsis...

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put toget...

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain...

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's d...

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but...

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has...

Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and ...

What are we, in this boundless and glowing world?

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.

It is hardly surprising that there are more things in heaven and earth, dear reader, than have been ...

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparab...

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautifu...

L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.

Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods...

Never say never

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than peop...

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human sou...

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false t...

I've developed a new philosophy - I only dread one day at a time.

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, ...

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire ...

A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle...

Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an u...

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from cele...

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-...

In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both e...

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fra...

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depress...

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you...

This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; realit...

Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible...

I sometimes think," said Jason, " that the soul may be a state of mind.

We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness an...

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, ...

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail...

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself...

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine...

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, a...

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If...

All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find ...