Philosophy Quotes

The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath human dignity, particularly any form of hand work. We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from.

~ Wendell Berry

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.

~ Neil Postman

So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it

~ Jason Najum

And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

~ Stephen Chbosky

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

~ C.s. Lewis

To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something like Buddhism doesn't even belong on the list, since it doesn't link salvation to divine worship, but to me this is just a quibble. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism all perceive human beings as flawed, wounded creatures in need of salvation, and all rely fundamentally on revelations that spell out how salvation is to be attained, either by departing from this life or rising above it.

~ Daniel Quinn

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

~ Daniel Quinn

Anger is defined by philosophers as a long-standing and sometimes incurable mental ulcer, usually arising from weakness of intellect. In support of this they argue with some plausibility that this tendency occurs more in invalids than in the healthy, more in women than in men, more in the old than the young, more in those in trouble than in the prosperous.

~ Ammianus Marcellinus

Anger is the fuel of resentment which can burn for a lifetime.

~ Debasish Mridha

When a man is at peace he is a man, when angry he is an animal.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you cannot stop yourself from getting angry, then at least get angry about things that matters.

~ Amit Kalantri

The major problem of the world is, most of the people are unjustifiably angry and very few are loving.

~ Amit Kalantri

Anger is the most effective inspiration.

~ Amit Kalantri

Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.

~ Neel Burton

Love is a natural feeling, hatred is an acquired one.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

Follow your heart, includes your responsibilities in everyday life; else heart will have only regrets at the end

~ Sandhya Jane

The language of the universe comes not from the voice but from the primordial silence. You can understand it by enhancing your feelings.

~ Debasish Mridha

Feelings have the divine attracting power. Feelings are the only link between you and everything around you.

~ Debasish Mridha

Like flowers to a bee, feelings are the silent language of the heart.

~ Debasish Mridha

Fear is a perception to dare but not to scare.

~ Debasish Mridha

A true hero make people feel like he is part of their family.

~ Amit Kalantri

Man wants to belong.He just doesn't know how.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

One man's fool is just another man's savior.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

We stood at the crossroads and we all knew that we should turn right to where the sign pointed, but in our stupidity we turned left and out over the precipice.I guess we had the same chance with pollution, but then again, we were at those damn crossroads.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

God would never make man in his image,because that would then make him as vain as what man is.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Man is only a forgetful mortal, but God — He sees, hears and remembers everything.

~ Suzy Kassem

Every man produces only to the capacity of their philosophies of life or doctrines as we Christians call it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that’s through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality—you who have never known any—but to discover it.

~ Ayn Rand

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don’t.

~ Ayn Rand

Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder.

~ Debasish Mridha

Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.

~ Thiruman Archunan

We spend so long trying to be what other people want,that when we look in the mirror,we see a stranger.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

A man who makes a mistake, can learn from it.A man that makes the same mistake again, has never made a mistake in the first place.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is unable to act for himself as an independent intelligence she acts for him. But the very fact that constitutes him a man is that he does not remain stationary, where nature has placed him, that he can pass with his reason, retracing the steps nature had made him anticipate, that he can convert the work of necessity into one of free solution, and elevate physical necessity into a moral law.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed only a little after my twentieth year, made write in those days that what is most valuable in man is his eternal and almost divine discontent, a discontent which is a kind of love without a beloved, and like an ache which we feel in members of our body that we do not have. Man is the only being that misses he has never had. And the whole of what we miss, without ever having had it, is never what we call happiness. From this one could start a meditation on happiness, an analysis of that strange condition which makes man the only being who is unhappy for the very reason that he needs to be happy. That is, because he needs to be what he is not.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

woMAN-ipulate or IMAGE-innateDid GOD create MAN in his own image? ORDid MAN create GOD in his own image?

~ Kamil Ali

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.

~ Georges-Louis Leclerc

To all those who still wish to talk about man, about his reign or his liberation, to all those who still ask themselves questions about what man is in his essence, to all those who wish to take him as their starting-point in their attempts to reach the truth, to all those who, on the other hand, refer all knowledge back to the truths of man himself, to all those who refuse to formalize without anthropologizing, who refuse to mythologize without demystifying, who refuse to think without immediately thinking that it is man who is thinking, to all these warped and twisted forms of reflection we can answer only with a philosophical laugh – which means, to a certain extent, a silent one.

~ Michel Foucault

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

...an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the first of those thousand years. Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile?

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau