Philosophy Quotes
Quotes about Philosophy
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- “Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his br...” — John Steinbeck, East Of Eden
- “A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know t...” — Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
- “Going green doesn’t start with doing green acts — it starts with a shift in consciousness. This shift allows you to reco...” — Ian Somerhalder
- “Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brillian...” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understan...” — Immanuel Kant, An Answer To The Question: What Is Enlightenment?
- “If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto,...” — Daniel Quinn
- “It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the n...” — Don Delillo
- “How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, ...” — Arthur Schopenhauer
- “you got a sad story, ruth,' mimba said. 'but not sad-sad. you here with me and cato and all us together now. you have a ...” — Anita Diamant, The Last Days Of Dogtown
- “Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosoph...” — Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fir...” — Stephen Hawking, A Brief History Of Time
- “With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous s...” — Marshall Mcluhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man
- “Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunt...” — Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery
- “Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white li...” — Ali Shariati
- “The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still wors...” — Arthur Schopenhauer, On The Suffering Of The World
- “If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th...” — Jarod Kintz, I Should Have Renamed This
- “So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it requi...” — R. Scott Bakker, The Judging Eye
- “Ilmselt on ikka tõsi, et valguse kiirusest kiiremini liikuda ei saa, ja seetõttu on kõik kosmoses elavad eluvormid kohut...” — Siim Veskimees
- “To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical...” — Charles Alexander Eastman, The Soul Of The Indian
- “It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confront...” — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
- “Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary ...” — Herman Melville, Moby Dick
- “The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which...” — Werner Heisenberg
- “The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian an...” — Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras
- “William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the...” — Bertrand Russell, A History Of Western Philosophy
- “A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rul...” — Jacques Derrida, Dissemination
- “Cinta memperindah hidup kita sebab pengalaman cinta pada dasarnya indah dan memperindah seluruh semesta. Mencintai seseo...” — A.m. Krich, Anatomi Cinta
- “The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The tr...” — Cormac Mccarthy
- “In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may see...” — Jean-paul Sartre, Existentialism Is A Humanism
- “This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this po...” — Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent Of Man
- “Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there'...” — Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973
- “Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many...” — Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto
- “The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time w...” — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
- “You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a parti...” — Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides To Die
- “The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed ...” — José Ortega Y Gasset
- “The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever y...” — Miyamoto Musashi, The Book Of Five Rings
- “I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, t...” — Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
- “As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional ang...” — Aberjhani, The Wisdom Of W.e.b. Dubois
- “Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. I...” — Stephen K. Hayes
- “It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other sayin...” — Søren Kierkegaard, The Diary Of Soren Kierkegaard
- “And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for...” — Will Durant, The Story Of Philosophy
- “I am dead because I lack desire,I lack desire because I think I possess.I think I possess because I do not try to give.I...” — René Daumal
- “We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives would exactly mirror ...” — Laura Knight Jadczyk, The Secret History Of The World And How To Get Out Alive
- “Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fa...” — Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
- “I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my lov...” — Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
- “The Unspoken Speaks Volumes Stillness brackets the exchanges between lovers. Itis not the lack of sound, but an encapsul...” — Beryl Dov
- “No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who ...” — Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
- “Particularity leads to peculiarity and then to pathological behavior. The three Ps. It is very insidious. You would even...” — Susan Trott
- “De jure objections are arguments of claims to the effect that Christian belief, whether or not true, is at any rate unju...” — Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief
- “Call it "a wonder"or "a mystery"and you have an excuse to never try understanding it - an excuse to not take responsibil...” — Lynna Merrill, The Seekers Of Fire
- “Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?” asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man ...” — Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs