Philosophy Quotes
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.Giacomo Leopardi
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.Dalai Lama
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.Barbara Charline Jordan
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.Anon.
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.Albert Camus
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Aristotle
Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grimm Grotto
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.Eugene Delacroix
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.John W. Gardne
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.Anonymous
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.Clive Staples Lewis
History is philosophy teaching by examples.Henry St. John Bolingbroke
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.Epictetus, Discourses
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.Epictetus
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.La Rochefoucauld
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.Oprah Winfrey
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.Thomas Hobbes
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.Henry Mille
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.John W. Gardne
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors.Unknown
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.C. S. Lewis
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.Henry David Thoreau
There are now - A - Days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.Henry David Thoreau
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
True philosophy invents nothing it merely establishes and describes what is.Victor Cousin
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
