Philosophy Quotes

The only secure knowledge is that I exist

Rene Descartes

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it

Marcus Tullius Cicero

An unexamined life is not worth living

Socrates

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all

Stephen Hawking

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together

Alan Watts

My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down

Louisa May Alcott

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

Paul Gauguin

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

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

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Karl Marx

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Maxim Gorky

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

Albert Camus

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Eric Clapton

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

Albert Camus
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