Philosophy Quotes

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beeche
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Epictetus - the essence of philosophy is that a man should so...
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatche
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
Anonymous
Victor cousin - true philosophy invents nothing it merely...
Kahlil gibran - keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry,...
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle
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
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
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 agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.
George W. Bush, Speech (2005)
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
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.
La Rochefoucauld
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.
Barbara Charline Jordan
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors.
Unknown
All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.
Epictetus
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
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.
Henry Mille
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
Author Unknown
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
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
Margaret Thatche
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
Oscar Wilde
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney Harris
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
Anon.
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest Dimnet
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
Giacomo Leopardi
Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.
Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grimm Grotto
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
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
Karl Marx
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle