Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Philosophy
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~ 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

~ History is Philosophy teaching by examples. ~

Thucydides

~ I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ~

John Adams

~ Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ~

Thomas Hobbes

~ History is Philosophy teaching by examples. ~

Thucydides

~ 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 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

~ To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations ~

Aldous Huxley

~ 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

~ I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed ~

Bruce Lee

~ Never judge a philosophy by its abuse ~

Saint Augustine

~ Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it ~

Galileo Galilei

~ Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old ~

Epicurus

~ Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant ~

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Epictetus

~ Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open ~

Ludwig Wittgenstein

~ Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it ~

Francis Bacon

~ Philosophy is not a theory but an activity ~

Ludwig Wittgenstein

~ What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows ~

Epictetus

~ 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

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

William Shakespeare

~ The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. ~

Voltaire

~ The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting. ~

Simone Weil

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

Henry Miller

~ Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. ~

Socrates

~ Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? ~

Paul Gauguin

~ I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds. ~

William James

~ Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment ~

Soren Kierkegaard

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