Philosopher Quotes

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

~ Ambrose Bierce

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

~ Will Durant

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

~ Criss Jami

A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils.Diogenes replied, But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.

~ Diogenes Of Sinope

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

~ Thomas Aquinas

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

~ H.l. Mencken

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

~ Criss Jami

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes, but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

~ Jeremy Bentham

Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

To lovers there.Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.

~ Kyos Magupe

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

~ Giacomo Casanova

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

~ Diogenes Of Sinope

My ship came in,then it sank!

~ Brian T. Shirley

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.

~ Criss Jami

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

~ Criss Jami

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

~ Criss Jami

Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate , bad behavior or living their bad lives through you.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.

~ Baruch Spinoza

O Heavenly Children, do not forget that God is here, there and everywhere. The birds are his eyes and the air is his ears. And as you sleep, your heart and soul rest naked before him. He can drink from the rivers of your thoughts, and even feel the wetness of your tears.

~ Suzy Kassem

O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and creeds. But their message is one and the same, don't you see? He only wishes to unite all His children under one family tree.

~ Suzy Kassem

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

~ Carl R White

Three things have a limited threshold:Time, pain, and death.While truth, love, and knowledge –Are boundless.

~ Suzy Kassem

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

~ Suzy Kassem

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

If you want to make people angry. Be Happy. It's sad that people cant stand when others are happy inlife. It really says a lot about them.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man of action pursuing practical goals of personal happiness and wealth or the philosophic man who lives in a world of theoretical and metaphysical ideas? We ascribe the value quotient to our lives by making decisions that we score as either valid or invalid based upon our personal ethics and how we think and behave.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Producers problems is in need of vocalist and Vocalist problems is in need of a Studio.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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