Philosophy Quotes - Page 2

Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.

Goethe

When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.

Chinese Proverb

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.

Oliver Goldsmith

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings Conquer all mysteries by rule and line Empty the haunted air the gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow.

Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.

William Shakespeare

Philosophy is doubt.

Michel de Montaigne

A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.

In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?

The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.

Epictetus

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

Bernard Lonergan

Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

Science is what you know philosophy is what you don't know.

Bertrand Russell

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

George Bernard Shaw

For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.

William Shakespeare

One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Sir Francis Bacon

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Queen of arts and daughter of heaven.

In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

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

William Shakespeare

There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.

William Shakespeare

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

George Bernard Shaw

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

Voltaire

Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men a search for their cause a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

Epictetus

Anything that comes easy comes wrong.

Josephine Tessier

To teach how to live with uncertainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others.

It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.

Charles F. Kettering

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

Charles M. Schulz

A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.

Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.

T.S Eliot

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for Death it has an entire set.

Laurence Sterne

Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed that life can be fixed up. In Europe the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.

Jonathan Miller

Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.

Goethe

When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.

Chinese Proverb

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.

Oliver Goldsmith

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings Conquer all mysteries by rule and line Empty the haunted air the gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow.

Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.

William Shakespeare

Philosophy is doubt.

Michel de Montaigne

A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.

In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?

The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.

Epictetus

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

Bernard Lonergan

Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

Science is what you know philosophy is what you don't know.

Bertrand Russell

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you’re living it.

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