Top 57 Good Philosophical Quotes
#1. A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#2. Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.
Valerie Solanas
#3. I have got only one life to live and one death to die; there better be a good cause to live and a good cause to die.
Surendra Nath
#4. When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'
Nicolas Cage
#5. Good and Bad is inside everybody. The difference is that the Good remember when they have also been bad and the Bad remember when they have only been good.
Girish Kohli
#6. Galen went so far as to assert that no one could be a good doctor unless they were also a philosopher, and he prided himself, with justification, on his own philosophical ability.
Brad Inwood
#7. Poetry should make you feel good, life's already full of possibilities that make you feel bad. But, there's always the needed philosophical poem that puts you back into a reality that might not be so pleasant.
K.R. Royal
#8. Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
#9. There's a funnel up his arse and a breeze between his ears. All the same I suppose his guess is as good as ours y'know? All he knows is 'shut up and keep going'. I mean, I for one, I can't make any philosophical advance on that. I mean, honestly - can you?
Ian Pattison
#11. One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut
#12. For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use
Aristotle.
#13. When a priest says 'Worship God, be just, indulgent, compassionate', he is a very good doctor. When he says, 'Believe me or you will be killed', he is a murderer." - Voltaire
G.K. Noyer
#14. Not even on the most distorted and contracted theory of good which ever was framed by religious or philosophical fanaticism, can the government of Nature be made to resemble the work of a being at once good and omnipotent.
John Stuart Mill
#15. The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.
Julian Baggini
#17. In all the good Greek of Plato
I lack my roastbeef and potato.
A better man was Aristotle,
Pulling steady on the bottle.
John Crowe Ransom
#18. Perhaps it is a good thing that we don't live long enough to realize how redundant things seem
G.E.GRAVES
#19. Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the knowledge entrusted to them and go further.
William Coperthwaite
#20. In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#21. I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions, such as the character of human existence and what makes for a good human life.
George Pattison
#22. I blame God for all the good things that happened in my life to spite him I will be good to others
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#23. All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
Jack Bowman
#24. The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.
Belart Wright
#25. Take heart. You're not alone. Every broken heart breathes again. That's life. It goes on. In loss, and in gain.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#26. Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.
C. D. Broad
#27. The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past.
Palle Oswald
#28. Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!
Guy Finley
#29. Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#30. I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
Alan Lightman
#31. Life is like a box of cookies: it's good while it lasts, but before you know it, it's gone.
R.M. ArceJaeger
#33. Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#34. Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.
Howard Hanson
#35. You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.
Steve Nash
#37. Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless ... (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#38. Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides
#39. They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
D.H. Lawrence
#40. He'd have more time for philosophical thoughts if he wasn't being pursued by a herd of satyrs. They weren't turned on by his rugged good looks either; they had murder on their minds.
Cailee Francis
#41. It's good to be philosophical about certain things. Better than letting them destroy you." Of
Harper Bliss
#42. Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.
Dalai Lama
#43. Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.
Patrick Carman
#44. I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.
Vasily Grossman
#45. I hope that I'm a good man ... it would be enough.
James Qualls
#46. The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity - and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
Richard P. Feynman
#47. Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#48. The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good, just magnificent.
Margaret Visser
#49. If I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought to be, my thesis would be simply this: A good life is one that has managed to turn anxiety into hope, and fear into success. And that is what I call total virtue.
Mohammed Naseehu Ali
#50. You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing.
John Sayles
#51. True evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#53. Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
John Locke
#54. I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#55. It's good to let your mind wonder, as long as you know where it's going
Benny Bellamacina
#56. 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
#57. For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless.
Sean S. Kamali
