Philosophy Quotes

I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what we should perceive with our inner sight, while what we listen to with our ears is merely a ringing sound disturbing what we should understand with our hearts. When we see a man being taken to prion by a police officer let us not hasten to assume he is a wrong-doer. When we see a corpse, and a man standing beside it with bloodstained hands, let us not conclude that this is a victim and his assassin. When we hear one man singing and another lamenting, let us ascertain which one of the two is truly happy.

~ Kahlil Gibran

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

~ D.h. Lawrence

Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this I who speaks of speaking?

~ Terry Eagleton

Allaah subhanahuu, rejects those who refused Allaah’s Shareeah; the laws that are good for the Muslims; the laws that forbid what is evil. Allaah rejects those who follow laws of personal desires and who adopt laws of Kufr such as the laws enforced by the Tartars who were under the control of Gengiz Khan, their king. These laws were a mixture of Judaism, Christianity and laws chosen by their king that suited his desires. Should we prefer these laws to the Sharee`ah of Allaah and His Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)?

~ Ibn Kathir

The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.

~ Mayank Sharma

Some way some how i'm going to be happy i'm going to laugh i'm going to prosper,i feel good that i remain positive thru these mess up times!!!

~ Jojo1980

Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.

~ Lev Shestov

The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.

~ Emil M. Cioran

In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.

~ George Lakoff

His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because there’s none there, and it can't be criticized as temperament, because temperament can't be criticized.

~ Álvaro De Campos

If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

~ David Starr Jordan

It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the body and soul of nescient childhood. Caeiro’s work is a dawn that wakes us up and quickens us; a more that material, more than anti-spiritual dawn. It’s an abstract effect, pure vacuum, nothingness.

~ Álvaro De Campos

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

~ Sun Tzu

Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic—in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn’t draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn’t do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system—learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention—may radically transform one’s life.

~ Sam Harris

It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.

~ Criss Jami

The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.

~ Criss Jami

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

~ Christopher Paolini

You will never know how high you can climb until you reach the top.

~ K.l. Toth

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

That’s the thing about love It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person

~ Kehinde Sonola

The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.

~ Aysha Taryam

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.

~ Felix Alba-Juez

Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.

~ Leo Frobenius

If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?

~ Felix Alba-Juez

Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.

~ Aysha Taryam

Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.

~ Felix Alba-Juez

‎...θα πρέπει να αντιληφθείς, αγαπητή Τερέζα, ότι τα αντικείμενα δεν έχουν, κατά την άποψη μας, άλλη αξία από εκείνη που τους δίνει η φαντασία μας

~ Marquis De Sade

I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.

~ Jesus Zamora Bonilla

In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.

~ Aysha Taryam

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

~ W. Norris Clarke

Sin is a gravitation.

~ Victor Hugo

Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.

~ Felix Alba-Juez

Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

~ Blaise Pascal

You can't always be right, but you can be wrong a lot less

~ Benny Bellamacina

Il pessimismo radicale sconfina nell'ottimismo.

~ Guido Morselli

Тогава си счел всички земни придобивки за нищо. И сега недей да милееш за нищо. Имай готовност, като захвърлиш всичко, да останеш гол.

~ Феофан Затворник

#quote In the harshest conditions is when we know better the people around us. En las condiciones más duras es cuando conocemos mejor a las personas que nos rodean.

~ Juan Luis Ortiz Hidalgo