Philosophy Quotes

Heresy would like to think of itself as 'invented Truth'. But of course, all Reason and Logic would agree that no man can ever create Truth; he can only discover it. If heresy were ever at all beneficial, God would use it really to bring one right back to Truth, as countless 'inventions' have brought men to discovery.

~ Criss Jami

It was said by Epicurus, and he was probably right, that all philosophy takes its origin from philosophical wonder. The man who has never at any time felt consciously struck by the extreme strangeness and oddity of the situation in which we are involved, we know not how, is a man with no affinity for philosophy - and has, by the way, little cause to worry. The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment; indeed, one might almost say that it is the fact that anything is experienced and encounter at all.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

When you forget what you ultimately stand for, you rejoice in blinding ignorance. Missing the bigger picture for the near pleasure is what humans and all living beings stand for. I guess there is no alternate way either. Because it is after all a game that all are destined to play until they end up dead.

~ Rakesh Ranjan

In the nineteenth century, The Romantics viewed Nature as benign, a glowing reflection of God's grace. Now we know better. Nature is brutal and, if it is feminine, she's not the kind of woman you can trust. Human beings may be her finest achievement yet, but when you get right down to brass tacks, we're meat. AIDS and organisms like streptococcus don't give a crap that we subdued the earth or produced a Shakespeare...

~ Rick Yancey

There are people who will always doubt you and you have to live with it. It only gets a lot worse when you have to die with it!

~ Rakesh Ranjan

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

~ Susan Neiman

We live and learn, change and grow. Older, but not always wiser. Stronger but not necessarily smarter. Life is a dance of steps taken forward and backwards, time spent standing still, and twirling in circles as we follow our own shadows.

~ A.j. Compton

I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one's own limitations.

~ Chris Matakas

By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim.

~ Chris Matakas

Independence is like a flower that nurtures itself in the light of another.

~ Zephyr A. Mcintyre

Make sure your subconscious knows you love it by stroking it until it purrs.

~ Teresa Sue Mcadams

...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.

~ René Descartes

The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them.

~ Neel Burton

We can find the answers will seek in books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Scientist’s intellect is their ship as they navigate through the treacherous waters of detail where, hopefully, their good sense and rationale leads them to truth. Religious leaders already have the truth and those tenants that are not well-defined don’t need a defense because faith shields them from the onslaught of details and facts.- Fillossofee, Messages from a Grandfather - an ebook

~ Robert Gately

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

~ Amit Kalantri

When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Treat your advices like your money, don't give it to others unless they ask for it.

~ Amit Kalantri

I speak less because my words are precious and my advices are priceless.

~ Amit Kalantri

To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.

~ Chris Prentiss

So you can be 'fantastic' or 'elastic' but can you ever be both lol??

~ Amber J.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

~ T. S. Eliot

It's hard to tread lightly when you continue to accumulate.

~ Craig Smedley

Never underestimate the audacity of the small minded and slightly crapulous.A rather bleezed young neighbour decided to have a grammar battle with me. It lasted all of two seconds.I said something slightly amicable, and he responded with, “You sure that's how you use that word?”I put down my laundry basket and turned to him slowly and deliberately.“Do you really want to have this discussion with me, son, or do you want to go home and rethink your life?”He grumbled and vanished.

~ Michelle Franklin

I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

You are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.

~ Ivan Turgenev

It's just that when you're standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more toeach other than in bright sunshine. It's also easier to whisper your feelings than toshout them from the rooftops.

~ Anne Frank

Remember, you are the light of love in the darkness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Darkness is a place that encourages us to seek light.

~ Debasish Mridha

The fastest and cheapest way to eradicate poverty is not by giving food but by giving hope, love, and education.

~ Debasish Mridha

What is Poverty? A hateful good, a mother of health, a putting away of cares, a discoverer of wisdom, business without injury, ownership without calumny, happiness without anxiety.

~ Secundus The Silent

In my philosophy, I think churches should not argue and be greedy with money. I think different churches like the synagogues, mosques, and Christian/Catholic churches should focus on bringing peace in the world and not compete. I know in today's world, people are defending one religion to another and try to show off. Has God, Jesus, or the disciples mentioned about competition in the Bible? I don't think so. Because if we compete, we turn to selfish needs and be greedy. So whatever religion you're in, have faith in it as much as you can and help others. Because in every religion I know, you have to give back the poor and have peace in your mind.

~ Simi Sunny

Life is sacred story.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.

~ Albert Camus

The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker, they need it to take the edge off.

~ Kellie Elmore

If I live...I will live unafraid...I will live so all can see,I am not ashamed of who I am or what I'm designed to be!-The Great Mephisto

~ Daniel Von Der Ahe

It is the adventure and uncertainties of the journey that makes life so beautiful and interesting.

~ Debasish Mridha

...and they buried him there, just off the trail, in a glade ten miles from the majestic Salween, a long way from home, but what dead man is not?

~ Stephen Becker

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón