Philosophy Quotes

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

~ Mark Twain

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

~ Carl Sagan

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.

~ Gilles Deleuze

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

~ George Carlin

No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

~ George Carlin

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

~ Tom Robbins

I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.

~ Graham Parke

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

~ Dale Carnegie

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

~ Terry Pratchett

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

~ H.l. Mencken

Cats don't need to be possessed, they're evil on their own.

~ Peter Kreeft

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

~ Terry Pratchett

I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money.

~ Graham Parke

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind, it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

~ William James

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

~ Albert Camus

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

~ Stephen Hawking

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

~ William Shakespeare

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

~ Albert Einstein

Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.

~ Plato

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

~ Benjamin Spock

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

~ Frank Zappa

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

~ Elie Wiesel

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

~ Bertrand Russell

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

~ Albert Einstein

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

~ Richard Dawkins

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

~ Malcolm X

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

~ Douglas Adams

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

~ William Blake

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

~ Lao Tzu

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

~ Santosh Kalwar

You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face

~ Ian Fleming

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

~ John Keats

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

~ Adolf Hitler

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

~ Natalie Babbitt

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.

~ Yann Martel

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

~ Oscar Wilde