Philosophy Quotes

It's okay to remember, but it's also okay to forget too.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Remember! When you promise someone the moon, it's not yours in the first place.

~ Anthony T.hincks

You may have a guardian angel,but I have a uzzi.You work out who's gunna come out on top!

~ Anthony Hincks

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila

ALATE POSTULATEWhen angels were invented, flight required wings

~ Kamil Ali

Your volume speaks volumes. Be aware of your dynamics, your tones as well as the loudness and softness of your voice on the phone and in person.

~ Loren Weisman

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

~ Raheel Farooq

It's a random universe. Shit happens. Good people get stage 4 cancer and dipshits win the lottery. There is no justice. Everything doesn't always come out square in the end. Life isn't some elegant math equation -- it's a Sergio Leone screenplay and everyone gets snuffed. Not all of us have to ante up for our portion of the tab. Some get to do the ol' dine 'n' dash.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

COMPASSIONThe religion of atheists

~ Kamil Ali

Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

~ George William Foote

Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you’re living it.

~ Mik Everett

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Spermicide' sort of rhymes with 'pesticide', yet you wouldn't put a load of DDT in you know where to kill you know what, now would you?

~ Anthony T. Hincks

A rumbling volcano is like a pimple.You know that they're both going to explode,but you just don't know when.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

When I was young, I forgot how to laugh in the cave of Trophonius; when I was older, I opened my eyes and beheld reality, at which I began to laugh, and since then, I have not stopped laughing. I saw that the meaning of life was to secure a livelihood, and that its goal was to attain a high position; that love’s rich dream was marriage with an heiress; that friendship’s blessing was help in financial difficulties; that wisdom was what the majority assumed it to be; that enthusiasm consisted in making a speech; that it was courage to risk the loss of ten dollars; that kindness consisted in saying, “You are welcome,” at the dinner table; that piety consisted in going to communion once a year. This I saw, and I laughed.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

~ Ray Bradbury

CURTAIN CALLThe world is our stage and the final act can highlight or ruin a beautiful play

~ Kamil Ali

Finish the work, otherwise an unfinished work will finish you.

~ Amit Kalantri

With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.

~ Fazal Inayat-Khan

If God created everything, and if man is created in God's image, and if man can dream a fate greater than the one set out for him by God, could God dream a fate greater than his own?

~ Michael Anthony

Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in existence and daily more active and far reaching, the old verbalistic philosophy and metaphysics have lost their reason to exist. They were no more able to understand the production of the universe and life than they are now able to understand or grapple with production as a means to provide a happier existence for humanity. They failed because their venerated method of speculation can not produce, and its place must be taken by mathematical thinking. Mathematical reasoning is displacing metaphysical reasoning. Engineering is driving verbalistic philosophy out of existence and humanity gains decidedly thereby. Only a few parasites and speculators will mourn the disappearance of their old companion speculation. The world of producers -the predominating majority of human beings- will welcome a philosophy of ordered thought and production.

~ Alfred Korzybski

Philosophy is about everything when I say everything I mean both something and nothing. Something is what we can perceive and nothing is beyond our senses.

~ Mark D. Ekperi

And just as the same town, when looked at from different sides, appears quite different and is, as it were, multiplied in perspective, so also it happens that because of the infinite number of simple substances, it is as if there were as many different universes, which are however but different perspective representations of a single universe form the different point of view of each monad.

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Wisdom plus knowledge equals understanding.

~ Reid A. Ashbaucher

Heidegger is the philosopher to whom especially postmodernists chiefly appeal in their radical rejections of metaphysics and of any and every conception of the entirety of actuality, of Being as such and as a whole. To be sure, their appeals to Heidegger are as a rule extraordinarily superficial ones. These authors come nowhere near to providing adequate interpretations of or appropriations from Heid

~ Lorenz B. Puntel

The term 'Being' does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulated conceptually according to genus and species: the 'universality' of Being 'transcends' any universality of genus.

~ Martin Heidegger

Notice that your judgments of what exists are the same kind of judgments you make about how to live your life. There aren't two kinds of things we do: judge what exists and decide what we want to do about it. Fundamentally, there is one kind of thing we do: live our lives. And we can reflect on this activity more or less abstractly.

~ Eric Kaplan

Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.

~ Louisa May Alcott

In periods when shallow speculation is rife, one might think that metaphysics would shine forth, at least, by the brilliance of its modest reserve. But the very age that is unaware of the majesty of metaphysics, likewise overlooks its poverty. Its majesty? It is wisdom. Its poverty? It is human science.

~ Jacques Maritain

Everything in the seen world is a dim reflection or representation of the unseen world.

~ Dan Pedersen

The accusation of metaphysics has become in philosophy something like the accusation of being a security risk in the public service. I do not for my part know what is meant by the word 'metaphysics'. The only definition I have found that fits all cases is: 'a philosophical opinion not held by the present author'.

~ Bertrand Russell

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

~ David Bentley Hart

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

~ P.d. Ouspensky

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

~ Gustav Fechner

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

God is triune, and all reality is structured in terms of Him. A brief definition of the Trinity might be this: One God without division in a plurality of Persons, and three Persons without confusion in a unity of essence. God is not 'basically' One, with the individual Persons being derived from the oneness; nor is God 'basically' Three, with the unity of the Persons being secondary. God is One, and God is Three. There are not three Gods; there is only one God. Yet each of the Persons is Himself God — and They are distinct, individual Persons. But there is only one God. To put it in more philosophical language, God’s unity (oneness) and diversity (threeness, individuality) are equally ultimate. God is 'basically' One and 'basically' Three at the same time. And the same goes for all of creation. Both unity and diversity are important – equally important. Neither aspect of reality has priority over the other.

~ David H. Chilton

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

~ Ayn Rand

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

So live. I'll be the nun for you. I am now.

~ Annie Dillard