Philosophy Quotes

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Victor Cousin

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Aristotle

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

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

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

La Rochefoucauld

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Unknown

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

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

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

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

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

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, 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

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

Barbara Charline Jordan

For academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

Battaille

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

Margaret Thatche

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

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

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

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

James A. Garfield

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

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

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Sydney Harris

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 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

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

Victor Cousin

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

Henry Mille

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Eugene Delacroix

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

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

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

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