Top 100 Books Philosophy Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Books Philosophy

#1. As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.

James Gleick

#2. There is no friend like a book; there is no beauty like a kind heart.

Debasish Mridha

#3. We need knew knights, but without swords.

Dejan Stojanovic

#4. When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

Jen Knox

#5. Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

#7. Your mind will never be dull, if you remember there is never enough to learn for it to be to full.

Benny Bellamacina

#8. Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#9. People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.

Jakub Marian

#10. This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.

Dejan Stojanovic

#11. We all R failures that's why V need #CHILDREN to fulfill D needs of #Society,#Nation,#Worlds , so that we can live the same old selfish way

Tushar Upreti

#12. Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.

Dejan Stojanovic

#13. Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Dejan Stojanovic

#14. Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

Marilynne Robinson

#15. Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Dejan Stojanovic

#16. The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

Jasper Fforde

#17. The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

William James

#18. A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

Louis Pasteur

#19. They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.

Dejan Stojanovic

#20. Summaries without background or study will lead to discussions without understanding.

Reid A. Ashbaucher

#21. More wisdom is contained in the best
crime fiction than in philosophy.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#22. If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.

Dejan Stojanovic

#23. As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.

Paul Auster

#24. One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

Carla H. Krueger

#25. I wish to continue reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.

Abhijit Naskar

#27. Every book has it's destiny, Like a human life , Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins" The days of Childhood !!!!!

Tushar Upreti

#28. Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Judy Blume

#29. If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

Dejan Stojanovic

#31. Books are our true but not our truest of companions, they know only to enrich but takes away nothing.

Ashutosh Gupta

#32. Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.

A.M. Hudson

#33. Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her - the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.

Vikram Seth

#34. There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.

Pete Hamill

#35. Now that we are all so smart, we don't easily find resolutions.

Dejan Stojanovic

#36. Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

Tadao Ando

#37. Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts I wish to recall and by associating those thoughts with related subjects which I may call to mind frequently.

Bruce Lee

#38. It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.

Eraldo Banovac

#39. Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

Dejan Stojanovic

#40. There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#41. I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

Amit Kalantri

#42. Women are like locked diaries that men expect to read like open books.

Munia Khan

#43. The notion of Local Inertial Frame is crucial to understanding Nature and, in particular, General Relativity. Notwithstanding, very few popular science books (not even textbooks) emphasize enough its fundamental character.

Felix Alba-Juez

#44. The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.

John Cheever

#45. The Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books, a list that came to include almost every significant work of post-medieval Western philosophy.

David Hume

#46. Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

Dejan Stojanovic

#47. For he would rather have at his bed's head Some twenty books, all bound in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy Than rich robes, fiddle, or gay psaltery. ========== Canterbury Tales

Anonymous

#48. There are things you find nothing about in books

Joseph Conrad

#49. You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

Dejan Stojanovic

#50. Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#51. The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

Jonathan Swift

#52. The game itself is bigger than the winning.

Dejan Stojanovic

#53. Brian: I love books
Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books?

David Nicholls

#54. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

Baltasar Gracian

#55. Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.

Dejan Stojanovic

#56. Without space, there is no time.

Dejan Stojanovic

#57. Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

Kobo Abe

#58. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.

Brett Armstrong

#59. We can find the answers will seek in books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#60. Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#61. Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

Brittany Hawes

#62. I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

Parker Young

#63. Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals.

Jonathan Kieran

#64. I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Reid Hoffman

#65. The stories I read gives strength to my spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#66. There comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.

James Salter

#67. There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.

Dejan Stojanovic

#68. How does one say something new and not retell?

Dejan Stojanovic

#69. My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.

Writer's Digest Books

#70. We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

Dejan Stojanovic

#71. Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#72. Strangers are endearing because you don't know them yet.

Dejan Stojanovic

#73. There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.

Dejan Stojanovic

#74. It's time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith.

Abhijit Naskar

#75. Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

Dejan Stojanovic

#76. If intellect could be acquired from books, nobody would have been more intellectual than a book monger.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#77. A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

Dejan Stojanovic

#78. You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon.

James Thurber

#79. Love is almost never simple.

Dejan Stojanovic

#80. The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

Frederick Lenz

#81. Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

Dejan Stojanovic

#82. Fear of new ideas breeds angry head spiders that have been known to attack.

Leah Broadby

#83. I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

William Harvey

#84. A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

Dejan Stojanovic

#85. If only education will aim at teaching learners' real life and life in books and not just books, learners will learn and understand real life and not just books, and they will dare to face life with real life lessons and lessons from books!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#86. The Foundation has secrets. They have books, old books - so old that the language they are in is only known to a few of the top men. But the secrets are shrouded in ritual and religion, and may use them.

Isaac Asimov

#87. Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.

Dejan Stojanovic

#88. Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Dejan Stojanovic

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

Bella James

#90. What would I have done without books?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#91. We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

Dejan Stojanovic

#92. Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

Dejan Stojanovic