Philosophy Quotes

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 Llama

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

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 teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Oscar Wilde

True philosophy invents nothing it merely establishes and describes what is.

Victor Cousin

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beeche

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.

Henry Mille

Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Kahlil Gibran

Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Sydney Harris

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Ernest Dimnet

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

Karl Marx

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

Author Unknown

There are now - A - Days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

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

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

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

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Isaac Asimov

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Charles Peguy

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Eugene Delacroix

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors.

Unknown

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

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 is the science which considers truth.

Aristotle

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

Henry St. John Bolingbroke