Top 99 Philosophy Lies Quotes
#1. All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus
#3. What we have left behind is beautiful, captivating, and inviting. What lies ahead of us is magnificent and mind boggling.
Debasish Mridha
#5. The source of greatness lies in commitment, persistence, and perseverance.
Debasish Mridha
#6. Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity.
Leo Tolstoy
#7. Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.
Epictetus
#8. Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
Stephen King
#9. Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#11. Mist lies over the river like the icy breath of winter angels. Darkness gathers round ... and it is beautiful.
Thank you for this life, this death, whatever it is you are
that makes us finally see.
Jay Woodman
#12. Happiness lies in simplicity
Complexity brings anxiety.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.
Stefan Molyneux
#14. Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#17. The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#19. Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things
Ilyas Kassam
#20. Even the most artistic of imaginings can sometimes seem callow in the face of truth. That which appears may not be and that which lies hidden may just be the stark, naked face of reality.
Anurag Anand
#21. A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
#23. Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
Margaret Fuller
#24. Life moved in circles. Such was the path. What came would come again, breath to breath, until each riddled out the truth within. War was a path to the next, as sure as any, but lies gained nothing.
Chris Galford
#26. One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open.
Forrest Curran
#27. CORE ADORE
Our true worth lies in our character, not in our accomplishments
Kamil Ali
#28. The existence of true religion is predicated on the practice of goodness. Goodness is Godliness. There is nothing else. Religion lies in practice, not in bookish theories.
Abhijit Naskar
#29. In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.
Eraldo Banovac
#30. In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#32. The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales':
Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.
Kamil Ali
#33. The secret of happiness lies in the lifestyle of a child who lives in present; past and future are only the grammar thing for him.
Ankit Rawat
#35. Humankind would be so bored if we already knew all the answers! The beauty of the Universe lies in our need to understand it, for that is what challenges us to acquire the knowledge and wisdom to reach great heights!
J.B. Richards
#37. False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity.
Amit Ray
#38. A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.
Chris Hedges
#39. Real victory of life lies in you being involved in more conversations and less monologues.
Ashutosh Gupta
#40. There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#41. Buried deep within each one of us lies a treasure. It is our mission in this lifetime to find this treasure, but its exact location is known only by the dragon that guards it.
Lawren Leo
#42. The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.
David Bowie
#43. The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#44. All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.
L. Ron Hubbard
#45. Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
H. Richard Niebuhr
#46. What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.
Margaret Atwood
#47. Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
John Stuart Mill
#48. It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge.
John Locke
#50. Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.
Lev Shestov
#51. The problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#52. Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
Dejan Stojanovic
#54. Everyone in this world is Abhimanyu, the difference being that most of us are trapped in a labyrinth of our own creation. It takes a lifetime for people to realise that the way out lies in their own hands. All it requires is a little introspection.
Anurag Shourie
#55. Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.
Saahil Prem
#56. Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.
Abhijit Naskar
#58. the whole philosophy behind this book is that true success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths. In short, when you suck at something and don't want it anyway, cut your losses and move on.
Sophia Amoruso
#59. Fire is bright and fire is clean. That way lies melancholy. Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.
Ray Bradbury
#60. But know this. All is speculation under the sky. All myth, all religion, all philosophy, all history - is lies.
Anne Rice
#61. A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
Dejan Stojanovic
#62. It just doesn't make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies "out there" with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is "in here" with us - embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies.
Jim Wallis
#63. Maybe happiness lies in imperfection more than perfection.
Ketan Bhagat
#65. The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
Stefan Molyneux
#66. We fear pain so much that if the truth hurts, we embrace the lies.
Debasish Mridha
#67. Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer.
The Ek
#68. Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#71. I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.
Jeanette Winterson
#73. Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#74. Politicians are not afraid of their mistakes, they are afraid their mistakes will not succeed
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#75. The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.
Max Gray
#77. There's a difference between the 'art' of writing and the 'craft' of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but craft is objective. There is a right way and a wrong way to craft.
Gerard De Marigny
#78. A man's shortcoming lies in the belief that he must always assert his manliness. A woman's shortcoming lies in the belief that she must always repress it.
Kamand Kojouri
#79. Success of democracy lies within the analytical thought of a common man.
M.H. Rakib
#80. The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#81. Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#82. Life lies between the crossroads of the Nature of the Mind and the Mind of Nature.
Joey Lawsin
#85. The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. 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
#90. Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.
Walter Isaacson
#92. Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#93. Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.
V.S. Naipaul
#94. To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony
Ilyas Kassam
#95. Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn't live off fame, but rather deeds.
Dejan Stojanovic
#96. I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
Van Morrison
#97. The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
Geerhardus Vos
#98. Be brave. Be free from philosophies, prophets and holy lies. Go deep into your feelings and explore the mystery of your body, mind and soul. You will find the truth.
Amit Ray
#99. At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.
Ransom Riggs
