Philosophy Quotes

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

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

Margaret Thatche

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

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

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

Barbara Charline Jordan

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

John Adams

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 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

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

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

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

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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

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, Discourses

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Victor Cousin

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

Karl Marx

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

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 examples.

Henry St. John Bolingbroke

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Aristotle

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

James A. Garfield

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

Unknown

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

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

Author Unknown

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

Epictetus

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

George W. Bush, Speech (2005)

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

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

Margaret Thatche