Top 100 Philosophy Books Quotes
#1. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.
Haruki Murakami
#2. It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Alain De Botton
#3. I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.
Parker Young
#4. Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.
John Wilmot
#9. This is no tall story. Nor is it a short story. Indeed, a story cannot be measured, for their realities stretch far beyond a page or one person's life.
Leah Broadby
#10. Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.
Edward Abbey
#11. My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.
George Emil Palade
#12. It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
Dejan Stojanovic
#16. 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
#17. A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. If our minds are like a garden, then emotions are like the different flowers that bloom and wither in it all year round, according to the season. Emotions sometimes bring dynamism and significant change to our lives, but we must never be led around by them.
Ilchi Lee
#19. We've reached the point where a Rhodes Scholar like Florida State's Joe O'Shea - a philosophy major, no less - is comfortable admitting not only that he doesn't read books but that he doesn't see any particular need to read them.
Nicholas Carr
#20. Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do.
Abhijit Naskar
#22. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
Thomas Bartholin
#25. 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
#27. The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..
Richard J. Foster
#28. A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
Ryan Lilly
#29. A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy.
Michael Levy
#30. That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#31. The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.
Ndiritu Wahome
#32. Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
Dejan Stojanovic
#33. I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
Dejan Stojanovic
#35. I think what makes good writing is intimacy - putting the reader inside the character's head. Many books are bad because they're merely guidebooks for sightseers.
Raymond Bolton
#36. The Secrets of' series of books by psychotherapist D. U. Sivri are designed to give you a better outlook on life. The author is an expert and skillfully gets you thinking about your life and how it is unfolding. He challenges you and gives you the tools to build a better life.
D.U. Sivri
#37. Why bother with other people's worlds made of words? was his philosophy.
Sara Nelson
#38. He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.
Dejan Stojanovic
#40. The road of life's twists and turns give wisdom; reading books and schooling give you knowledge.
Debasish Mridha
#41. There is a large gap between being an activist out of the idealism that comes from books, conversations, the fire of youth and being one because you have lived through the depredations that life has thrown at you.
Neel Mukherjee
#42. Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#43. His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.
Dejan Stojanovic
#45. When I had my girls, I knew what magic felt like for the first time. I had created people who didn't exist before. Now I write for the same reason. Creating people and their life's stories through my writing is as close to magic as I'll ever get again.
Dori Ann Dupre
#46. People don't learn about their sexuality from books or discussions; they learn mostly from personal experience in bed with themselves or someone else.
Darrel Ray
#47. Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.
Dejan Stojanovic
#48. Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
Dejan Stojanovic
#50. 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
#53. Summaries without background or study will lead to discussions without understanding.
Reid A. Ashbaucher
#54. If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.
Dejan Stojanovic
#57. I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
William Harvey
#58. A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
Dejan Stojanovic
#59. Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.
Dejan Stojanovic
#60. Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
Dejan Stojanovic
#61. Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
Dejan Stojanovic
#62. Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.
Dejan Stojanovic
#63. Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.
Tom DeLonge
#67. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
Brett Armstrong
#69. Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#70. Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.
Brittany Hawes
#71. There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.
Dejan Stojanovic
#73. Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#75. There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.
Dejan Stojanovic
#76. It's time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith.
Abhijit Naskar
#77. You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.
Dejan Stojanovic
#78. If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#79. Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.
A.M. Hudson
#80. Now that we are all so smart, we don't easily find resolutions.
Dejan Stojanovic
#81. Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts I wish to recall and by associating those thoughts with related subjects which I may call to mind frequently.
Bruce Lee
#82. It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.
Eraldo Banovac
#83. All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.
Abhijit Naskar
#84. There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#85. Women are like locked diaries that men expect to read like open books.
Munia Khan
#86. The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.
John Cheever
#87. The Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books, a list that came to include almost every significant work of post-medieval Western philosophy.
David Hume
#89. Your present is what you live, but your past is what you carry.
Dan Sanders
#90. 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
#91. There is no friend like a book; there is no beauty like a kind heart.
Debasish Mridha
#92. 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
#93. Your mind will never be dull, if you remember there is never enough to learn for it to be to full.
Benny Bellamacina
#94. 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
#95. People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.
Jakub Marian
#96. We all R failures that's why V need #CHILDREN to fulfill D needs of #Society,#Nation,#Worlds , so that we can live the same old selfish way
Tushar Upreti
#97. As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.
James Gleick
#99. The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
Jasper Fforde
#100. A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Louis Pasteur
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