Critical Philosophy Quotes

#1. If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.

Raheel Farooq

#2. A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

Soren Kierkegaard

#3. I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.

Patrick Leahy

#4. Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

Ralph Marston

#5. Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.

Stefan Molyneux

#6. In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

Theodor W. Adorno

#7. The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.

Stefan Molyneux

#8. Hindu philosophy was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the advent and the teachings of the Lord Buddha. I revere Buddha as a reformer of not only Hinduism but also the world, who has given all of us a new world view and vision which is critical for the survival of all of us and the entire world.

Narendra Modi

#9. There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

Bertolt Brecht

#10. We employ our personality, what we know, think, and believe, in order to interpret the world, making self-understanding a critical act because it establishes the baseline for our philosophical and intellectual approach towards life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#11. Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Guy Debord

#12. The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

Guy Debord

#13. A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#14. There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

Guy Debord

#15. Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.

Peter Singer

#16. Memories are forever.

Lois Lowry

#17. It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge.

John Locke

#18. Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Guy Debord

#19. The modern mind is never popular in its own day. People hate being made to think.

Edith Hamilton

#20. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#21. You cannot grow if you are not Thinking

Andrea L'Artiste

#22. The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.

Mike Scheidt

#23. All men look nerdy in black socks and sandals.

Rita Rudner

#24. ...I lived for those long casual walks down the beach and the sight of her small footprints in the glistening wet sand...

Pat Conroy

#25. You know, I don't believe that religions are religions. No, I believe they are philosophies with some good ideas and some fuckin' weird ones.

Eddie Izzard

#26. Never forget to be kind when you have to be critical.

Debasish Mridha

#27. Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Guy Debord

#28. One cannot have a future if he does not serve God, the one and only God

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#30. Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love.

Debasish Mridha

#31. Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Sidney Hook

#32. So far from realizing philosophy, the spectacle philosophizes reality, and turns the material life of everyone into a universe of speculation.

Guy Debord

#33. The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive ... compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

Guy Debord

#34. In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Guy Debord

#35. Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

Stefan Molyneux

#36. In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address.

Nina Easton

#37. Make adjustments and improvements to enhance the effectiveness of meetings or surpassing of your target. Learn to define, quantify and be specific about what, how and when you want to succeed in each area of your life.

Archibald Marwizi

#38. The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.

Tom Heehler

#39. We can honor our emotions after any traumatic event by moving through the experience centered in the heart with the goal of reaching the light on the other side.

Molly Friedenfeld