Top 100 Long Philosophy Quotes
#1. The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
Lao-Tzu
#2. The illusion of free will, of freedom, is a useful tool you know. Let people think they are free and present them with a danger to their so-called freedom, a fear. It's amazing how much you can get them to deal with just as long as you tell them they're still free.
Jordon Greene
#3. Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.
Dora Russell
#4. Son, you need to look through the scope at the things that are far away, but you also need to take your eye away long enough to see what's close.
Bob Goff
#5. When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!
Edward Carpenter
#6. Nero would be long since forgotten without his outbursts of bloody clowning. ~ Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay
Emil Cioran
#7. [F]ree will seems to violate all we know of how the world works, but as long as we cannot construct a logical proof of its nonexistence we cling to it tenaciously, even desperately.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#8. Everybody is waiting for something whether it is in the short or long term.
Steven Redhead
#9. Nothing lasts for long. Even moments of beauty transcend and transform.
Debasish Mridha
#10. In-N-Out Burger has a well-known and long standing reputation as a corporation that is operated with a Christian message and philosophy.
Lynsi Torres
#11. The English winter is long, cold and wet, just like the English summer
Benny Bellamacina
#12. I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don't consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.
Anton Chekhov
#14. His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularized by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy.
James Joyce
#15. One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
Clarence Darrow
#16. We are here for a short time, so live a life of love and kindness, which tends to live long.
Debasish Mridha
#17. As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.
Susan Neiman
#18. There might be a lot of physical chemistry within a couple, but without the compatibility of life philosophy and interests then the relationship will likely not be long-lasting.
John Friend
#19. At times, look back towards your ancient days, drink deep from the eternal fountain of wisdom long gone, and then look ahead.
Abhijit Naskar
#20. For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself.
Plato
#21. I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time
Laurell K. Hamilton
#22. The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky
#23. I wish Lucilius you had been so happy as to have taken this resolution long ago I wish we had not deferred to think of an happy life till now we are come within light of death But let us delay no longer
Seneca.
#24. No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the courage to encounter discomfort and stay with it long enough to be changed by it, strengthened.
Jason Dias
#25. Men are accustomed to making objective assessments of devastating situations, as long as they are not immersed in them. Rare is he who maintains objectivity in the midst of personal affliction.
Michael D. O'Brien
#26. You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it.
Debasish Mridha
#27. In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by ... [philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.
Plato
#28. As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.
Rivera Sun
#29. In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.
Mario Bunge
#30. Hey, Jimmy."
"Yeah."
"You ever think about how long we're going to live?"
"No," he says. "Not really."
"Well, why not?"
"I dunno. Guess I'm too busy livin' it to think about it.
Ryan Winfield
#31. Any goal in life is attainable as long as one follows it consistently.
Ndiritu Wahome
#32. Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.
Peter Kreeft
#33. As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us
but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.
Jostein Gaarder
#34. It seems in this day and age, people are banking on a Faith that has long since checked out.
Solange Nicole
#35. The road ahead is long and there will be many setbacks. Success is not assured ... but the price of failure has never been this high.
Charles Lee Lesher
#36. Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#37. See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.
Oli Anderson
#38. I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.
Criss Jami
#39. Appreciate every little improvement. Forget to criticize every failure as long as you are learning from them.
Debasish Mridha
#40. I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon this investment approach for another
Seth Klarman
#41. Your destiny will not carry you over the long and winding path of life. You must walk it yourself.
Ian Segal
#42. Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.
Charles Dickens
#43. My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.
Ricky Gervais
#44. Things remain paranormal, as long as we scientists don't reveal the underlying physical processes.
Abhijit Naskar
#45. One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.
Stanislaw Lem
#46. As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit ... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.
Brian Cowen
#47. I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.
Cornel West
#48. Take me to the land of lovers where flowers bloom with love, birds sing with love, and hearts long for hearts.
Debasish Mridha
#49. While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.
Seth Klarman
#50. But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
Mark Twain
#51. For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last few hundred years they've been considered different areas of inquiry, and now we're starting to go back to the idea that maybe they aren't two separate realms of inquiry.
Brad Warner
#52. The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.
James Taylor
#53. Gaze not too long into the abyss, lest the abyss gaze into thee.
Edward Abbey
#54. Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
Richard Bach
#55. Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#56. The paradox of life; I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#57. We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe
John Updike
#58. My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.
Dino De Laurentiis
#59. Do you believe in God, doctor?
No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
Albert Camus
#60. I think you can do your own thing as long as you're not hurting anybody else--that's been my philosophy ever since I was a little girl.
Bettie Page
#61. I think America is a new country. It is a young culture. The spirit of the opening of the West is still with the Americans. It's a very practical and individual-based kind of philosophy that had worked in America for a long time, had been very successful. And the spirit is very much there.
Chen-Ning Yang
#62. Love as the moon loves the night.
Love as much as you can.
Love as long as you can.
Love as long as you live.
Live only as long as you can love.
Debasish Mridha
#63. But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#64. without the act of imagination humanity would have perished long back
Thiruman Archunan
#65. As long as you SIT, you Stay In Trouble. Once you STAND, you Shift Toward A New Direction, take a STEP, and Start To Embrace Purpose, then WALK to Welcome Abundance, Love and Knowledge.
Niquenya D. Fulbright
#66. Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.
Dejan Stojanovic
#67. Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.
Guglielmo Marconi
#68. As long as there is institutional inequality, hell, naw we can't all get along!
M.G. Hardie
#69. Life is like a restaurant; you can have anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price.
Moffat Machingura
#70. Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#71. Bantu Philosophy: People cling to life and are not yet at the stage where they wil fight for the quality of that life. They feel as long as they are surviving, that is enough.
Michela Wrong
#72. They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
Wilbur Smith
#73. But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
J.L. Austin
#74. Life is short but donation of life could have a long life.
Debasish Mridha
#75. It is only in pain that a woman is capable of rising above mediocrity. Her resistance to pain is infinite; one can use and abuse it without any fear that she will die, as long as some childish physical cowardice or some religious hope keeps her from the suicide that offers her a way out.
Colette
#76. Now anybody can be "kind." And everybody's supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you were born into and couldn't help. Now it's just a faked-up attitude half the time, like teachers the first day of class.
Robert M. Pirsig
#77. When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.
Charles D. Broad
#78. It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
John Gardner
#79. As long as God is a man, not a couple, the life of a woman, according to Hanna,is bound to remain as it is now, namely wretched, with woman as the proletarian of Creation, however smartly dressed.
Max Frisch
#80. Have no fear in the devil and acknowledge the insecurities, mistakes of the past, and disappointments that you have long failed to accept as new beginnings and see the child within you begin to heal.
Forrest Curran
#81. I've always thought it nonsense to believe something true simply because it was written in a book long ago.
Ken Liu
#82. It takes a long time to wake up. That's why it doesn't happen to people who are in a hurry.
Robin Gregory
#83. Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
W. Edwards Deming
#84. 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
#85. Peace is a long journey within.
With enduring calmness, tranquility and kindness, you win.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.
Dagobert D. Runes
#87. I never can love you deep enough or long enough to satisfy me.
Debasish Mridha
#89. As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
Emil Cioran
#90. Truth
*
I had a long heart-to-heart talk
with a politician
and a 14 month old baby
the baby spoke more truth
than the politician
_
2014(c)rassool jibraeel snyman
The Poetic Assassin
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#91. When you love with your heart and soul, then you long and belong. How could there be a separation?
Debasish Mridha
#92. As long as you're not hurting anyone or anything, including your future self, do only that which makes you happy.
Kamand Kojouri
#93. Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.
Cindy Ross
#94. They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.
Paul Simon
#95. Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
Norman Vincent Peale
#96. As long as we're alive there is always hope.
Kenneth Eade
#97. A relationship does not start the day two people meet; it starts in the childhood of each partner. For it is long before they meet that the template of their relationship is established.
John Armstrong
#98. Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want to live on and on, delighting like a pagan in all that is physical; and i know that this one lifetime, however long, cannot satisfy my heart.
Ruskin Bond
#99. Do what supports your long-term goals not what is easier.
Debasish Mridha
#100. During the long nights in the caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues - for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy.
Emil M. Cioran
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