Philosophy Quotes

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of world history- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in the future. The silent darkness, the featureless unknown, were more dread than all the terrors that imagination had mustered. Peering, the mind could see nothing sure, nothing in all human experience to be grasped as certain, except uncertainty itself; nothing but obscurity gendered by a thick haze of theories. Man's science was a mere mist of numbers; his philosophy but a fog of words. His very perception of this rocky grain and all its wonders was but a shifting and a lying apparition. Even oneself, that seeming-central fact, was a mere phantom, so deceptive, that the most honest of men must question his own honesty, so insubstantial that he must even doubt his very existence.

~ Olaf Stapledon

When your tears become invisible, disappear

~ Benny Bellamacina

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

~ Peter Watts

We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.

~ Zephyr Mcintyre

Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.

~ Virginia Woolf

All is flux

~ Heraclitus

Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else

~ Benny Bellamacina

♫ I learned a lesson today: never judge a person by the way they act, nor how they dress, or the way they have their disabilities. Because everyone on Earth suffers the same hell, whether in love or hate, life or death.

~ Nandanie Phalgoo

I Take Life Very Seriously: One Joke At A Time.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

Such Excessive Preoccupation With The Faults Of Others Only Manages To Bring The Spotlight To Shine Bright On Whatever It Is You May Have Hiding Behind All Your Self Perceived Glory.

~ Marcie Leeper

In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy.

~ Steve Maraboli

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

~ Felix Alba-Juez

Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва.

~ Khaled Hosseini

We co-create our reality with others in unseen ways.

~ Doug Dillon

God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression...

~ John Stuart Mill

The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible.

~ Jesus Zamora Bonilla

În clipa când ți se impune să nu te gândești la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație.

~ Jean-Claude Carrière

The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.

~ Felix Alba-Juez

Life is a complexwith real and imaginary parts

~ Angela Suba

True, life is complex. But so are a great many accidents.

~ Foz Meadows

MIGHT, something God only has.

~ A Gentlemen

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

~ Norman Maclean

If you live consciously, if you try to bring consciousness to every act that you go through, you will be living in a silent, blissful state, in serenity, in joy, in love. Your life will have the flavour of a festival. That is the meaning of heaven: your life will have many flowers in it, much fragrance will be released through you. You will have an aura of delight. Your life will be a song of life-affirmation, it will be a sacred yes to all that existence is. You will be in communion with existence — in communion with stars, with the trees, with the rivers, with the mountains, with people, with animals. This whole life and this whole existence will have a totally different meaning for you. From every nook and corner, rivers of bliss will be flowing towards you. Heaven is just a name for that state of mind. Hell means you are living so unconsciously, so absurdly, in such contradiction, that you go on creating more and more misery for yourself.

~ Osho

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

~ Peter Kreeft

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

~ Peter Kreeft

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

~ Jostein Gaarder

I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

~ Baruch Spinoza

I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

~ Niels Bohr

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off.Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.

~ John Green

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

~ Jostein Gaarder

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

~ Immanuel Kant

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

~ Peter Kreeft

When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine

~ Benny Bellamacina

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.

~ Daniel Amory