Philosophy Quotes
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. (Quote by - Heraclitus)
The map is not the territory. (Quote by - Alfred Korzybski)
Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Like stealing the juice out of tomorrow's fruit. (Quote by - Destin Figuier)
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. (Quote by - Alice Roosevelt Longworth)
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. (Quote by - Eric Berne)
Seeking is not always the way to find. (Quote by - Augustus William)
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? (Quote by - John Lancaster Spalding)
It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. (Quote by - Terri Minsky)
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment. (Quote by - Augustus William)
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
Before I travelled my road I was my road. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. (Quote by - Barbara Kingsolver)
I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. (Quote by - Zen Buddhist Proverb)
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. (Quote by - William Blake, Proverbs of Hell)
Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing. (Quote by - Jean Paul Sartre)
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. (Quote by - Dr Seuss)
I've developed a new philosophy (Quote by - I only dread one day at a time. (Quote by - Charles M. Schulz)
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. (Quote by - John Muir)
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
If you're going to tickle, use a feather not a whip. (Quote by - Audrey Foris)
Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. (Quote by - Doménico Cieri Estrada)
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. (Quote by - Ernest Dimnet)
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. (Quote by - Steve Miller)
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. (Quote by - James Thurber)
You cannot step into the same river twice. (Quote by - Heraclitus)
You can see a lot by just looking. (Quote by - Yogi Berra)
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal. (Quote by - Astrid Alauda)
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. (Quote by - James A. Froude)
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. (Quote by - Hippocrates, Aphorisms)
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Anything that comes easy, comes wrong. (Quote by - Josephine Tessier)
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. (Quote by - Roger Miller)
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
I doubt one could live in the darkness, but one could probably survive. (Quote by - Nathaniel LeTonnerre)
A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Quote by - Lord Darling)
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)
In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed, that life can be fixed up. In Europe, the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents. (Quote by - Jonathan Miller)
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. (Quote by - Matsuo Basho)
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. (Quote by - Ludwig Börne)
There are some remedies worse than the disease. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Eggs cannot be unscrambled. (Quote by - American Proverb)
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. (Quote by - Edward Albee)
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. (Quote by - Buddha)
What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. (Quote by - A. C. Benson)
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. (Quote by - Robert M. Pirsig)
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines. (Quote by - Gilbert Ryle)
A blind man in a dark room (Quote by - looking for a black hat which isn't there. (Quote by - Lord Bowen)
To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it. (Quote by - Augustus William)
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. (Quote by - Lee Segall)
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Molière)
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. (Quote by - Goethe)
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. (Quote by - Jean-paul Satre)
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. (Quote by - Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland)
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. (Quote by - Russian Proverb)
Who depends on another man's table often dines late. (Quote by - John Ray)
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? (Quote by - Chuang Tzu)
To teach how to live with uncertainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. (Quote by - Voltaire)
The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence. (Quote by - William James)
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. (Quote by - Georg Hegel)
Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion. (Quote by - Charles Yost)
I am a part of all that I have met. (Quote by - Alfred Lord Tennyson)
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. (Quote by - E. W. Dijkstra)
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Queen of arts, and daughter of heaven. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
By daily dying I have come to be. (Quote by - Theodore Roethke)
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Facts often contradict with truths. (Quote by - David H.k. Leung)
Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. (Quote by - Michael Reed)
You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. (Quote by - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues)
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Quote by - Niels Bohr)
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
A stumble may prevent a fall. (Quote by - English Proverb)
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body? (Quote by - Laurel Hoodwrit)
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. (Quote by - John Jay Chapman)
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? (Quote by - George Gordon)
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and." (Quote by - Arthur Stanley Eddington)
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. (Quote by - Ram Dass)
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. (Quote by - Augustus William)
I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, To comfort thee, though thou art banished. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. (Quote by - Zen)
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. (Quote by - Polish Proverb)
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. (Quote by - Leo Rosten)
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other. (Quote by - Chinese proverb)
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. (Quote by - Charles C. Finn)
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything (Quote by - for Death it has an entire set. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. (Quote by - Albert Szent-Györgyi)
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels--but alas! We see thee like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step,--dull slumbering on the earth. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. (Quote by - Socrates)
Philosophy is doubt. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Philosophy is the science which considers truth. (Quote by - Aristotle)
I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? (Quote by - Seneca)
Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
If a placebo has an effect, is it any less real than the real thing? (Quote by - Nathaniel LeTonnerre)
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
A gun gives you the body, not the bird. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems. (Quote by - Edward Hodnett)
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. (Quote by - Terry Josephson)
Philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an errant jade on a journey. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Whence? wither? why? how? (Quote by - these questions cover all philosophy. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
When the student is ready, the master appears. (Quote by - Buddhist Proverb)
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. (Quote by - John L. McClenahan)
The future influences the present just as much as the past. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
One does what one is; one becomes what one does. (Quote by - Robert von Musil)
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. (Quote by - G.C. Lichtenberg)
It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. (Quote by - Chang Ch'ao)
Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. (Quote by - S.A. Sachs)
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, the gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow. (Quote by - John Keats)
In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion)
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? (Quote by - Stanislaw J. Lec)
That stone, Philosophers in vain so long have sought. (Quote by - John Milton)
In philosophy an individual is becoming himself. (Quote by - Bernard Lonergan)
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it? (Quote by - Charles Connolly)
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzche)
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. (Quote by - John Lancaster Spalding)
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. (Quote by - Aesop)
Why should not grave Philosophy be styled. Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock, A dreamer, yet more spiritless and dull? (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. (Quote by - Zen Saying)
Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement. (Quote by - Epictetus)
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. (Quote by - Sylvia Ashton-warner)
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. (Quote by - Anthony Jay)
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? (Quote by - Maurice Freehill)
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
The obstacle is the path. (Quote by - Zen Proverb)
The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. (Quote by - Sarah Orne Jewett)
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. (Quote by - Navajo Proverb)
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. (Quote by - Stanislaus I of Poland)
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood b' implicit faith. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. (Quote by - George Sand)
Every clarification breeds new questions. (Quote by - Arthur Bloch)
Skin is a covering for our immortality. (Quote by - Ever Garrison)
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. (Quote by - John Milton)
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings? - Craftmanship in Teaching. (Quote by - William C. Bagley)
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. (Quote by - Henri Louis Bergson)
We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. (Quote by - Alexander Jodorowsky)
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. (Quote by - Søren Kierkegaard)
One man's quiet is another man's din. (Quote by - Carrie Latet)
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. (Quote by - Epictetus)
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. (Quote by - David Hume)
It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run. (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)
Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. (Quote by - Baba Ram Dass)
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. (Quote by - Santayana)
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me? (Quote by - Robert Brault)
I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true? (Quote by - Jim Bower)
The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. (Quote by - Epictetus)
We become aware of the void as we fill it. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart. (Quote by - Augustus William)
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Philosophy is nothing but Discretion. (Quote by - John Selden)
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. (Quote by - Decouvertes)
May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to. (Quote by - Jeb Dickerson)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. (Quote by - Naguib Mahfouz)
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
