Best Philosophical Quotes

#1. Having a rather pessimistic outlook on life makes for the best philosophical discussions; distress is the only real reason to question something; comfort often leads to the inability to change.

Moryah DeMott

#2. The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

Nicolas Chamfort

#3. It's best to locate the mind first before launching the 'missiles of contention'.

Gasmaskman

#4. Love at first sight is a polite phrase used when one wants to fuck a stranger.

Sheeja Jose

#5. Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

Aristotle.

#6. Klosterman's Razor: the philosophical belief that the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with. _

Chuck Klosterman

#7. I'd given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I'd painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#8. Often times, "shame" is the word that best describes reality.

Carroll Bryant

#9. Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Life, wherever it leads,
Will always be the same,
It begs for the best of you.

Scott Hastie

#11. The best way to move forward is to stop

Benny Bellamacina

#12. Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Michel Onfray

#13. But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

Robert Burns

#14. Best that all mischief be undertaken behind a squeaky door

Benny Bellamacina

#15. The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.

Salley Vickers

#16. A single lie is the father of all lies

Sheeja Jose

#17. When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.

Jocelynn Drake

#18. If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls.

Fernando Pessoa

#19. The best things in life make you sweaty.

Edgar Allan Poe

#20. Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing.
Catelyn

George R R Martin

#21. The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#22. At their best, all religious, philosophical, and ethical traditions are based on the principle of compassion. I

Karen Armstrong

#23. I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain and nervous system and the mind with a scientific approach is just incredible! Its philosophical, psychological and biological, three very interesting areas to me.

Freddie Stroma

#24. The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth , air , and [[water.

Novalis

#25. You are the best book you could ever write phi

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#26. We live in a world where those things that we never imagine could ever do something, did the best.

Jestoni Revealed

#27. The world needs people like you,' Simmon said in the tone of voice that let me know he was turning philosophical. 'You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless. You're a rare creature.

Patrick Rothfuss

#28. I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

Margaret Atwood

#29. Let destiny change you,but never change your destiny,for what God has given you is the best

Philosophical Library

#30. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

Bella James