Philosophy Quotes

Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.

~ Amit Kalantri

This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.

~ Daniel Klein

If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion

~ Benny Bellamacina

Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.

~ François Mitterrand

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

~ Criss Jami

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

~ Bertrand Russell

Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self.

~ Epictetus

Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.

~ Amit Kalantri

Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.

~ Amit Kalantri

People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?

~ Martha Louise Hunter

When the mind is free, magic happens.

~ C.g. Rousing

The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.

~ Criss Jami

Love will never let you down, if you don't give it up

~ Benny Bellamacina

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness

~ Confucius

Want less, live more

~ Benny Bellamacina

Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.

~ Ilyas Kassam

I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.

~ Alice Bag

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.

~ Virchand Gandhi

Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.

~ Felix Alba-Juez

To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.

~ Felix Alba-Juez

Who are you? No really. Way, way down deep. Who are you?

~ Doug Dillon

Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to choose our own path in life.

~ Manuel Toharia-Cortés

We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.

~ Doug Dillon

When you’ve tried everything and failed, try everything else and succeed

~ Benny Bellamacina

I can kill a bad guy, but I can't save anyone. I'm not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer who shit his pants.

~ Samuel Engelen

Other people are only aspects of our own greater being.

~ Doug Dillon

You can change your mind, don't let your mind change you

~ Benny Bellamacina

Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.

~ Felix Alba-Juez

It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!

~ Felix Alba-Juez

When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic particles touch!

~ Felix Alba-Juez

Pretend you are foolish to the foolish, and be yourself when you are alone or with others like you, because if you take the foolish seriously as your friend, you might be a fool yourself.

~ A Gentlemen

Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.

~ Jesus Zamora Bonilla

A loud smile is often a fake laugh.

~ Saahil Prem

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

~ Raheel Farooq

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

~ John Stuart Mill

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

~ George Orwell

In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.

~ Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

~ Khushwant Singh