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

#1. It seemed too good to be true and thus, be human philosophy, clearly false.

#2. A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Morris Raphael Cohen

#3. Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorized as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.

Dan Simmons

#4. that last word of human philosophy, "Perhaps!

Alexandre Dumas

#5. Only the incomprehensibilities of a Triune God could explain the impossibilities of human philosophy.

Kevin Swanson

#6. Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#7. He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous for it.

Russell Shorto

#8. Perception believed is reality achieved

Andy August

#9. You should always look on human life as short and cheap. Yesterday sperm: tomorrow a mummy or ashes.

Marcus Aurelius

#10. Pessimism is a funny thing, isn't it? Madison thought as she looked at Judith's furrowed face. I like a bit of pessimism as much as the next man, but when I'm bombarded with it I suddenly became an eternal optimist.

Melissa Kite

#11. Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.

Jonas Eriksson

#12. The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

Ashley Montagu

#13. Human nature in time is engraved in history.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

David Maraniss

#15. The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.

Abhijit Naskar

#16. Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

#17. 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

#18. To transcend nature, to be alienated from nature and from another human being, finds man naked, ashamed. He is alone and free, yet powerless and afraid.

Erich Fromm

#19. Certainly, one of the greatest achievements of the human intellectual spirit was the Arabic Translation Movement. Over the course of about 100 years, virtually the entire Greek Scientific and philosophical corpus was either translated or summarized into Arabic (McGinnis, 10).

Jon McGinnis

#20. I am not me, I am not a human being.
I am empty.
Infinite emptiness dwells in me.
I am the spirit.
Emptiness is me.

Debasish Mridha

#21. The human heart needs only the bare elements to survive, the human brain wants to the limitlessness of tolerance. Finding yourself is a matter of pitching your tent in the middle.

Zephyr McIntyre

#22. Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

Charles Kettering

#23. A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Philosophy and Psychology

The latter is study of researched human brain and behavior

The former is the behavior after studying the human brain.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#25. I have heard that we are spirits having a human experience. Perhaps those of us who have no conscience are dark spirits having a human experience.

P.A. Speers

#26. Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

#27. The elements of life do not segregate themselves, unless they are human.

Zephyr A. McIntyre

#28. At the moment when anyone begins to take philosophy seriously, all the world believes the opposite."
- Human, All Too Human, "Assorted Opinions and Maxims,

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. Humanism is the purest expression of your soul as a human. It has no God to be concerned with, except for the living Gods, that is the humans. It has no doctrine to abide by, except for the natural doctrine of love and benevolence. That's the religion we need my friend.

Abhijit Naskar

#31. On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

#32. In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#33. It's in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the power to not hit back.

Abhijit Naskar

#34. We often forget that we are simple human beings, here to enjoy the beauty, magic, and mysteries of life and the nature to wonder. Not to live a complex, mechanical, stressful corporate life to death.

Debasish Mridha

#35. As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn't feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.

Forrest Curran

#36. 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

#37. If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, where else could they live?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. The rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Jeremy Bentham

#39. Your religion is whatever makes you a better human being.

Abhijit Naskar

#40. Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society ... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

Gore Vidal

#41. This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers.

Mark Lilla

#42. Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

Michel De Montaigne

#43. Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

Simon Critchley

#44. Human beings are pixels of love, trust, and kindness
We came from Milky Way, dust, and brightness.

Debasish Mridha

#45. Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Andre Comte-Sponville

#46. There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

Milan Kundera

#47. The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

Moliere

#48. I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

Hannah Arendt

#49. All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

David Eagleman

#50. Ethics is nothing other than reverence for life because God is within every other human being you come in contact with either physically, or emotionally. Living with reverence for life is attuning goodliness, which is a state of godliness.

Vishwas Chavan

#51. Sometimes even the most successful people feel empty and incomplete; because they are not heroes yet.

Amit Kalantri

#52. Our traditional oil and gas philosophy does not have conservation as a crucial component, and we can ill afford to continue to spend billions of dollars which are not reflected in the improved human capital of our country.

Anthony Carmona

#53. A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

Robin Williams

#54. A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

Raymond Geuss

#55. Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#56. I'm just here to remind you that every human life is a bold and delicate projection of the eternal into the temporal.

Paul Kijinski

#57. You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.

Nenia Campbell

#58. People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.

George Carlin

#59. Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because of huge numbers, but due to human capital people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.

Ilana Mercer

#60. If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Albert Einstein

#61. The journey is made up of the most genuine and honest wonders of the mind, but also includes unfathomable sorrow and despair; yet, this is what makes up a journey as well as the human experience in entirety.

Forrest Curran

#62. Kindness should be a priority for every human being.

Debasish Mridha

#63. Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor ... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.

Emma Goldman

#64. Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being - and experience the other person in the essence of his or her being. In essence, all human beings are identical. We are all part of One; we are One.

Erich Fromm

#65. He thought that all human religion and philosophy could be reconciled. That the quest for knowledge was the highest good; and that somewhere, between all the wars and debate, there was some universal truth he could discover which would bring humanity together.

Elizabeth Hunter

#66. Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

Pindar

#67. Every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

Rebecca West

#68. Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine.

Swami Beyondananda

#69. Life itself is a frightening image for every human being.... being strong in life isn't easy.

Inuyasha

#70. It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#71. In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism

Amit Kalantri

#72. The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

Milan Kundera

#73. The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#74. I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.

Ayn Rand

#75. Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.

T.A. Uner

#76. As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

Alan Watts

#77. A human life is poetry written in our heart.

Debasish Mridha

#78. Every heart beats and radiates love every moment. Every human being desires your love every second.

Debasish Mridha

#79. I felt like I was cheating myself of those communities and cheating the audience because I wasn't able to know them. That's what the bikes did, without me having to put any arbitrary philosophy on what it was supposed to be. It enabled human connection.

Ben Sollee

#80. Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

Jennifer Michael Hecht

#81. You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

David Cronenberg

#82. Look Below and You'll feel Rich,
Look Above and You'll feel Poor

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#83. Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.

Nenia Campbell

#84. Every human being has to build a secret temple in his soul where he can shelter himself and find himself again and again.

Debasish Mridha

#85. Reason is your means of survival - so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

Ayn Rand

#86. My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

Herbert A. Simon

#87. Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.

Travis Culliton

#88. Consciousness is nothing but a neuro-chemical and a mechanical action of the body. Consciousness is important, but the expression of thoughts with language makes us human. Everything is conscious, but levels of consciousness are different.

Debasish Mridha

#89. Human beings can learn valuable lessons in conservation of necessary personal resources for accomplishing the fundamental tenants of life by observing a judiciously paced turtle determinedly and stealthily traversing the world.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#90. We are fallen fools, most of our philosophy is not "the proper use of human reason" but the improper use of human reason.

Peter Kreeft

#91. The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.

Thomas Jefferson

#92. Faith in Qur'anic revelation unveils all the possibilities that lie before the human intellect.

Osman Bakar

#93. This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence -- because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly useless.

Hans W. Silvester