Philosophy Quotes

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Victor Cousin

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

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

Epictetus

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

Henry St. John Bolingbroke

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

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

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

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 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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Ernest Dimnet

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

Unknown

For academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

Battaille

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Clive Staples Lewis

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

Margaret Thatche

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

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

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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 Llama

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

John W. Gardne

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

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Isaac Asimov

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

William Shakespeare

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Anon.

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

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

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

C. S. Lewis

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

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

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

Francis Bacon

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Oscar Wilde

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

Author Unknown

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beeche

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Aristotle

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus