Top 100 Philosophy Book Quotes
#1. At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
#3. Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.
John Wilmot
#4. Only the sixth sense can expose what the other five have hidden.
Matthew A. Petti
#5. It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants
of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the
realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and
abstruse books of philosophy.
Czeslaw Milosz
#6. I see there is a good deal of grandiloquence in my book - my friends and foes have told me. I think it must be true, for there is a good deal of grandiloquence in me - and in nature also: I saw a sunset last evening that was a gross imposition upon modesty.
Max Ehrmann
#7. I don't want to write a book which will bring me fame for just an hour. I will try to write something which may not be very popular but it may last forever.
Debasish Mridha
#8. If my life was pulled into the pages of a book, there would be coffee stains and wrinkles along the lines of that narrative. Because all I can wish is that the book of my life would be well read and well loved. Living within words and the sound of writing.
F.K. Preston
#9. The world will not change by our position in the Universe. Actions change when beliefs change; collective actions and beliefs change the world.
Matthew A. Petti
#10. The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or Oscar Wilde, people who weren't losers but who didn't believe in the work ethic, and argued this thing about guilt or wrote philosophy about idleness.
Tom Hodgkinson
#11. One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it's happened.
Fredrik Backman
#12. Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.
Alan Bennett
#13. A novel, or a book on philosophy, is going to use both sides of the brain: not only will you have feelings about what you read, but your mind will also get more of a work-out because you will make connections between what you are learning and what you already recognize.
Philippa Perry
#14. Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery.
Auliq Ice
#15. Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.
Zubin Mehta
#16. A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
#18. I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#19. I had to re-write "Philosophy" a lot. It was more obscure than what's in the book now, even! Some things I had to go back to and excise my former self, who was even more dense. I think you should teach whatever you want, Brian! That's the point of books like White Girls, to help free our thoughts!
Hilton Als
#20. Some kind of philosophy undergirds every movie, commercial, lecture, or book. Everything we take into our minds is trying to teach us something about how we should think the world is. (Life Hacks, p.83)
Jon Morrison
#21. An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.
Roger Ebert
#23. Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry.
Ellie Rose McKee
#24. When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; ... despairing of reconciling many of its absurd statements with even my childish philosophy, ... I became a sceptic, doubter, and unbeliever, long ere the 'Good Book' was ended.
Elmina Drake Slenker
#25. He'd stolen his philosophy of editing from the old New Critics - it's just about the book. Not the author, not the market, not the reader ... one judged a book only by the book.
Tiffany Reisz
#26. Every book has it's destiny, Like a human life , Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins" The days of Childhood !!!!!
Tushar Upreti
#28. I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.
Duop Chak Wuol
#29. Although it is not as famous as Kuhn's SSR, Bas van Fraassen's book The Scientific Image (1980) has certainly had a profound effect on the philosophy of science
Howard Margolis
#30. I am the author of a book called "My Life's Journey" and creator of my destiny.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.
Arif Ahmed
#32. All events/actions create a potential energy that rotate around the doer until releases or neutralized. (From Circles of Reasoning book)
Reza Assadi
#33. Mysteries are the evidence to errors in our religious and historical precepts.
Matthew A. Petti
#34. The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.
Thomas Hobbes
#36. Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.
Kwame Nkrumah
#37. After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:
... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.
Felix Alba-Juez
#39. If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
Thomas Carlyle
#40. If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#42. Live in the moment. Don't carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and learn from it, but don't carry it on your shoulder. You will feel lighter and be able to enjoy the present and the future.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#44. I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen.
John Adams
#45. A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
Ryan Lilly
#46. Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.
Jamaica Kincaid
#47. Josiah Royce wrote a book with the title The Philosophy of Loyalty.
Atul Gawande
#48. In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter.
Abhijit Naskar
#49. My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.
James Scott Bell
#52. Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with happiness instead of pain.
Haidji
#53. No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk.
Herbert Spencer
#54. God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.
Charles Stanley
#56. The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.
Frederick Lenz
#57. Some memories just stay. They just refuse to give up on staying. Maybe it is good that they stay. It helps us stay rooted. It helps us to know who we really are.
Aditi Bose
#58. The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.
John Daniel
#60. Book knowledge is not enough. Experiential knowledge is essential for success in life.
Debasish Mridha
#61. If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended.
Martyn V. Halm
#62. The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#64. If intellect could be acquired from books, nobody would have been more intellectual than a book monger.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#65. If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus
#68. Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
#69. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.
Baltasar Gracian
#71. Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.
Brittany Hawes
#72. The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, as I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#73. Destiny is manifested only through action.
Suzy Kassem
#74. What I love about Popsicle and the moments I can be with Camden is that their whole philosophy is family and these moments that it can create to just sit with my son, read a comic book or go outside on a hot day, take a swim and have a Popsicle treat with him.
Vanessa Lachey
#75. My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.
Writer's Digest Books
#76. I feel that a book is never written by the writer alone
it's written by him and everyone around him be it directly or indirectly
Subhasis Das
#77. And I know just's well as anybody that if you control a man's space and time then you control his whole goddamn life: he's a goner, cause hell, there ain't nothin' for him to do in space and time but make the few choices he can make with what he got.
Nicholas Hochstedler
#78. I've always thought it nonsense to believe something true simply because it was written in a book long ago.
Ken Liu
#79. Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!
Tae Yun Kim
#80. Everyday we are writing a page in a book we call life. So write it better, write it with love.
Debasish Mridha
#81. I was breathing life into the book through my hand, and the book was breathing back out through me into the world. And what was a book but leather? And what was leather but animal skin? And what was paper but a tree, and vellum but lamb? And what was I but an idea?
Wesley Stace
#82. I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.
Amit Kalantri
#83. Women are like locked diaries that men expect to read like open books.
Munia Khan
#84. Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes - I mean the universe - but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written
Galileo Galilei
#85. Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book. Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.
Sharon L. Reddy
#86. Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#87. There is no friend like a book; there is no beauty like a kind heart.
Debasish Mridha
#88. Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb.
Dan Sofer
#89. Oh but you wouldn't believe,
This book is the fruit of knowledge from Eden;
It was written once by Adam and Eve,
After it was forbidden
Stephan Attia
#90. Imagination has no book value, but has imaginative value.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#92. Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#93. For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.
Brett Armstrong
#95. I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news for you at this level! I believe the first duty of philosophy is making you understand what deep shit you are in!
Slavoj Zizek
#96. I found the book, Qur'an,] in spite of "the contradictions, the absurdities, the anachronisms", "rhapsody, without connection, without order, and without art.
Voltaire
#97. I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did.
Carla H. Krueger
#98. I was always taught to write the book you want to read. It's a philosophy I haven't wavered from since.
E.A. De Graaf
#99. The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
Jasper Fforde
#100. The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.
William James
