Top 63 Philosophical Musings Quotes

#1. If you don't know history,
you don't know anything.
Edward Johnston

Richard Puz

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

Fakeer Ishavardas

#3. There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

Sophocles

#4. Ambition soars and also slithers

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#5. Why would God create people with all these desires and curiosities and then punish them for trying to satisfy them?

Belle Blackburn

#6. Wind waves on the lake break hard against the sharp rocks, but wash gently on sandy shores.

Tom Gillaspy

#7. Lies are living beings; once they get hold of you they never let go

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#8. Your greatest adventure is written inside of you

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#9. They said, Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?

Qur'an 2 30

#10. Leftie loosely is the way
to relax a set old screw
as rightie tightly thinks
new bullshit to pursue

Cornelia "Connie" DeDona

#11. Most things dopn't stay the way they are very long.

Richard Ford

#12. The polarized world: We're all in it together vs Me and Mine and to hell with everyone else.

William Hageman

#13. Fear and anger, Yoda had often warned him, were slaves to the dark side. Vaguely, Luke wondered which side curiosity served.

Timothy Zahn

#14. No thought,no reflection,no analysis,no cultivation,no intention;let it settle itself.Relax "Tilopa

Tilopa

#15. If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.

R.D. Ronald

#16. There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.

Bill Murray

#17. To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Michel Houellebecq

#18. A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence
-rassool jibraeel snyman

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#19. Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#20. Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#21. Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#22. Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life.

Jay Woodman

#23. The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#24. Whether we are men dreaming we are butterflies or butterflies dreaming we are men, the one truth is that all life is an illusion. We are all wandering shades.

Jenifer Mohammed

#25. Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?

Aysha Taryam

#26. Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#27. A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls
when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]

Kresley Cole

#28. The older we get, the more we become ourselves.

Alan Andrews

#29. Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do.

Shannon Winslow

#30. He had an intrusive gaze and quietly confident manner, that seemed to strip away the layers of protective deception Scott would usually adopt around strangers.

R.D. Ronald

#31. The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.

Salley Vickers

#32. Everyone's broken, one way or another.

Max Barry

#33. Some people build houses others build people; of the two I would rather be of the latter

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#34. Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.

Linda Collison

#35. People are no damn good.

William Steig

#36. Sometimes the answer is in the question.

Cristina Smith

#37. Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Richard Ford

#38. If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.

Palle Oswald

#39. Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.

R.D. Ronald

#40. Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#41. Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.

R.D. Ronald

#42. A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#43. Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#44. The world of nature, at once a vision of exquisite beauty and an arena of brutal savagery, is a dynamic system of delicate balances.

S. Bradley Stoner

#45. Sleep like you can never be dead
Dream as if you have a soul inside your head

Munia Khan

#46. Hope without fulfillment is more cruel than despair

Geraldine Harris

#47. NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to manipulate language to expose the truth.

Jenifer Mohammed

#48. It's a cold sun that casts long shadows.

Christopher Carosa

#49. The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance; just tolerance.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#50. My boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality
just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

Alberto Moravia

#51. Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#52. It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#53. Progress is heading in a forward direction and realizing what was behind is now your legacy!

K.C. Rhoads

#54. The most formidable thing standing between your dreams and you ; is you

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#55. All the most fascinating subjects leave...no...shadows. But we keep watching and waiting just in case.

R.J. Askew

#56. I don't categorize things merely to simplify my understanding. I'd rather delve into the process of unlearning.

Nikhil Sharda

#57. Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

R.D. Ronald

#58. Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.

Palle Oswald

#59. 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

#60. The Anticipation is annihilated by the act

K.C. Rhoads

#61. Knowing the true isolation of being marks the beginning of love for others.

Jack Sanger

#62. No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#63. Such philosophical musings risk inviting depression or inefficiency. Better just to fix the problem and move on to the next one. It's all part of being a service provider at the end of the line.

Katrina Firlik

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