Philosophy Quotes

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

Henry Ward Beeche

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

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

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

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

Barbara Charline Jordan

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

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

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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

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

La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

Henry St. John Bolingbroke

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

James A. Garfield

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus