Top 100 Bad Philosophy Quotes
#1. The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.
Jurgen Habermas
#2. Bad philosophy before the Enlightenment was typically of the because-I-say-so variety. When the Enlightenment liberated philosophy and science, they both began to make progress, and increasingly there was good philosophy. But, paradoxically, bad philosophy became worse.
David Deutsch
#4. If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
C.S. Lewis
#5. The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
Sam Harris
#6. The bad news is that time is finite, but good news is that it's enough for a life.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.
Ray Davies
#8. Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.
Rob Brezsny
#9. Something can be beautiful, if something else is ugly.
Someone can be good, if someone else is bad.
Lao-Tzu
#10. I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.
Kangana Ranaut
#11. There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.
George Carlin
#13. My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors.
William O'Neil
#14. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!
Jean Van Hamme
#15. Material wealth can be bad for your health.
Because when you're in the soil it'll make your blood boil,
that you couldn't keep it all for your self.
Benny Bellamacina
#16. What's good for individual could be bad for society but what's good for society that will be good for individual and there is always need to choose what right for society because if it is right for society then it is right for individual.
Zaman Ali
#17. If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
Barbara Castle
#18. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.
Abraham Lincoln
#19. Too bad relationships weren't math problems with precise answers. They were essay questions in a philosophy class, and they came down to judgement.
Lauren Blakely
#20. Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts.
Jeremy Grantham
#21. When you have dinner with the Devil, you learn that either you have good taste or that you have bad taste.
Lionel Suggs
#22. Plenty of people think the same thing. All of them are teenagers, mentally if not physically. Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, gown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God.
Tana French
#23. Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
Norman Mailer
#24. Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.
Ani DiFranco
#25. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. Runnin's not a bad thing, sir, so long as you're runnin' towards somethin' good.
Jonathan Auxier
#27. Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Bob Dylan
#28. Remember that everything that is happening around you, good or bad, is in some way conspiring to help you.
Debasish Mridha
#29. What's your life philosophy, Leo?" "I haven't figured it out yet." Abbey considers this. "'I haven't figured it out yet' is not a bad life philosophy
Paul Acampora
#30. Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pundits and parents, Why?
Thomas Cathcart
#31. A church was only as good or bad as the philosophy that emanated from the pulpit.
Erika Johansen
#32. It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#33. Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.
Bruce Hornsby
#34. My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.
Charlie Hunnam
#35. There is no good day or a bad day, but our perception makes it so.
Debasish Mridha
#36. That's not a bad word ... hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.
Judy Blume
#37. I don't think there is anything that annoys me as much as having to "be" somewhere. It seems like every bad thing that ever happened to me happened when I was somewhere.
Gary Reilly
#38. The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.
Alan Watts
#39. It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart sets aside its questions when the future is too capricious. This is the irony of tribulation.
To know the world will never be so bad.
R. Scott Bakker
#40. After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.
Brock Clarke
#41. In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.
Orson Scott Card
#42. I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.
Voltaire
#43. I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
John Stuart Mill
#45. perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.
Jacob M. Held
#46. It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
W. Somerset Maugham
#47. My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
Omar Sharif
#48. ...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people's way of life...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#49. What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.
Mary Renault
#50. I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
Waylon Jennings
#51. Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
Umberto Eco
#52. There is no right or wrong, no good or bad, only natural and unnatural, only cause and consequence.
Girish Kohli
#53. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill
#54. Good" and "Bad" may be alien concepts to him, Ben.
Stan Lee
#55. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
Aldous Huxley
#56. That businesspeople buy low and sell high in a particularly alert and advantageous way does not make them bad unless all trading is bad, unless when you yourself shop prudently you are bad, unless any tall poppy needs to be cut down, unless we wish to run our ethical lives on the sin of envy.
Deirdre N. McCloskey
#57. Life's full of surprises, and they ain't all bad.
Barbara Rogan
#58. People are like pickles- some are sour, some are sweet, and some leave a bad taste in your mouth.
Kallee Gallant
#59. If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#60. Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
Socrates
#61. Philosophy believes she has not made a bad use of her resources when she has bestowed on Reason sovereign mastery over our soul and authority to bridle our appetites.
Michel De Montaigne
#62. My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.
Bill Belichick
#63. Life is like a cooking pot. If you cook something good, you well get something tasty. If you cook something bad, you will get something bad.
Debasish Mridha
#64. I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time
Laurell K. Hamilton
#66. Nothing stands so much in the way of the production and propagation of the great philosopher by nature as does the bad philosopher who works for the state.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. 'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.
Johnny Knoxville
#68. If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything.
A.E. Coppard
#69. Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
#70. The leftist philosophy of violence is simple: It's good when it's being used for leftist causes. It's bad when it's being used for any other purpose.
Ben Shapiro
#71. Never waste your precious time in discussing the good and bad qualities of others.
Abhijit Naskar
#72. Cos there's holes in this world,see. Holes. And the likes of Thommo, and Keith, and me, and Kenny, we just sort of fall through em. We weren't never bad kids, we just didn't have nothing to hold on to, that's all.
Ian Ayris
#73. The great world, so far as we know it from philosophy of nature, is neither good nor bad, and is not concerned to make us happy or unhappy. All such philosophies spring from self-importance, and are best corrected by a little astronomy.
Bertrand Russell
#75. I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.
Mike Royko
#76. Life is a series of memories, some good, some bad, that make us who we are.
Chie Aleman
#77. When a black cat crosses your path, follow it. Understand the knowable unknown.
Lionel Suggs
#78. A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
#79. Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.
Eric Weiner
#80. Most bad people are good people that don't know how to think critically. These people become the blind weapons of a society.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
Joseph Brodsky
#83. Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.
Criss Jami
#84. All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
John Wayne
#85. I'm bad at math because I can't find the basic statement in it.
Innasafa
#86. Nobody is good or bad. They are either strong or weak. Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations. Weak people, many a times, do not even realise how low they have fallen.
Amish Tripathi
#87. I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.
Shehan Karunatilaka
#88. Narrative is the way to communicate ideas. Philosophy just tastes bad to most people unless you wrap it up in a good story.
Lily King
#89. Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad.
Amit Ray
#91. Goodness is funny because it draws you to it while curiously possessing you with the untrammelled desire to turn it into something bad.
Sophie Villalobos
#92. What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.
Jennifer Niven
#93. In the end, we must all individually take collective responsibility for both the good and the bad that exist in this world.
Mac MacKenzie
#94. I had my own dump truck of bad karma waiting for me somewhere ahwad. I had certainly earned it, but I raced to avoid it if I could; there was no way I wanted to fell that.
Kevin Hearne
#95. A good person always find the goodness in a bad person.
Debasish Mridha
#96. Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don't produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#97. You remind me o another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct.
Aldous Huxley
#98. Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies - good or bad - cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#99. It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have.
Enrique Iglesias
#100. Emotion is bad if it hinders the mind from thinking. An
emotion that opens the mind to contemplate several
aspects of things at once is better than one that fixes
thought to an obsession.
A.C. Grayling
