Philosophy Quotes

If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.

~ Jeanette Winterson

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

~ Milan Kundera

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, it is its enormity, its boundlessness, its oceanic limitlessness. The earth has no end here; the world has no end. Man is no created for such measureless. For him a comfortable, palpable, serviceable measure is the measure of his village, his field, street, house. At sea, the size of the ship's deck will be such a measure. Man is created for the kind of space that he can traverse at one try, with a single effort.

~ Ryszard Kapuściński

Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts.

~ Debasish Mridha

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

~ Michel Foucault

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

~ Richard J. Foster

You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it.

~ Donald Miller

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.

~ Chloe Thurlow

We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must train ourselves into thinking in a certain way.

~ Ndiritu Wahome

The main danger is that of supposing that the thing to do is get a mind on the scale of Thomas (Aquinas)’s into your head, a task of compression that will be achieved only at your head’s peril. The only safe thing to do is to find a way of getting your mind into his, wherein yours has room to expand and grow, and explore the worlds his contains.

~ Denys Turner

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

~ Aberjhani

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.

~ Anne Carson

People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm.

~ Subhan Zein

If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.

~ Subhan Zein

If you have a big heart, you will live a large life.

~ Yvonne Jayne

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata, there is a thunder note in an angry sky.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Love is almost never simple.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

There are countless circles of hell, believers never penetrate the ninth circle.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

There are no winners in real games.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

There are many secrets, don’t try to resolve them all.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The game itself is bigger than the winning.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

If you are good, they say you are weak.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

~ Dejan Stojanovic