Philosophy Quotes

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.

Barbara Charline Jordan

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatche

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Ernest Dimnet

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall

Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

Anonymous

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

There are now - A - Days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.

Henry David Thoreau

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus

Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Kahlil Gibran

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Eugene Delacroix

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardne

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Margaret Thatche

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Henry David Thoreau

True philosophy invents nothing it merely establishes and describes what is.

Victor Cousin

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Sydney Harris

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

H. L. Mencken

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.

Henry Mille

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

George W. Bush, Speech (2005)

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.

Anon.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors.

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