Top 100 Philosophy's Quotes
#1. Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.
Jurgen Habermas
#2. Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.
Julian Baggini
#3. Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.
Khalil Gibran
#4. Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.
Jennifer Grotz
#5. Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
Seneca The Younger
#6. Philosophy's true use - "An operating system for life's difficulties and hardships".
Ryan Holiday
#7. Art's role (like philosophy's) is not to criticize reality but to change it; and little change can be effected if art remains a cloistered domain.
Richard Shusterman
#8. Wrangling about precisely what constitutes genuine philosophy, proper philosophical practice, method, and aims is an important part of modern philosophy's content and heritage
Gregory B. Sadler
#9. Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.
Giuseppe Peano
#10. Best part of my job is fulfillment. When I see that, that we're creating value, that we're helping improve people's lives, and we benefit from it, so it's a system of mutual benefit. Our philosophy's working. That's what turns me on. That's what keeps me going.
Charles Koch
#11. History, by definition, cannot be experienced directly. As it is happening, it is the present, and that is philosophy's realm.
Brandon Sanderson
#12. Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.
Susan Neiman
#13. Philosophy has been a masked ball in which a religious image of humankind is renewed in the guise humanist ideas of progress and enlightenment. Even philosophy's greatest unmaskers have ended up as figures in the masquerade. Removing the masks from our animal faces is a task that has hardly begun.
John N. Gray
#14. Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#15. Sometimes life itself rewards our early investments.
Dixie Waters
#16. A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.
Debasish Mridha
#17. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.
Bella James
#18. Regaring Politics: You've got your cats on one side and your dogs on the other; someone has to walk the fence and feed the animals. - Kinky Friedman
Ray Palla
#19. ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.
F.B. Newman
#20. Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.
Abigail Thomas
#21. Legs: the symbol of my solitude, my individual path, my uniqueness. Arms: the symbol of togetherness, my connection to others, my belonging to the human race. My legs make me who I am; they create my solitary path. My arms make me who I belong to; they connect me to the world.
Nicos Hadjicostis
#22. To find and enjoy profound happiness, learn from nature and emulate her stoic calmness.
Debasish Mridha
#23. The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
Albert Einstein
#25. An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.
Eraldo Banovac
#26. Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
Baruch Spinoza
#27. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#30. He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.
Baruch Spinoza
#31. When you are looking for love, then
love is spreading its net to catch you.
Debasish Mridha
#33. I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
Stanley Baldwin
#36. The bad news is that time is finite, but good news is that it's enough for a life.
Debasish Mridha
#37. My teacher asked my favorite color. ... I said 'Rainbow'.... and I was punished to stand out of my class.
Saket Assertive
#39. Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#42. What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, 'nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#43. Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#44. Does the thoughtful man suppose that ... the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
George Santayana
#45. Our most important problem is that we can talk to express our thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Courage comes from knowing that fear is a false perception.
Debasish Mridha
#48. I'm into a lot of Eastern philosophy. It's kind of like theosophy; it's about finding the relationships between all the great religions and focusing in on the good stuff.
Weyes Blood
#49. Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#50. A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#51. There is something, like a feeling, that reminds me of happy days filled with exploration and imagination. Days where the rest of the world fell behind me and only left a friend.
Angeles Kossio
#52. To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
Anne Lamott
#53. To find love, joy and peace for the humanity, let us promise to build a peace loving and a kind family.
Debasish Mridha
#54. Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger.
Debasish Mridha
#55. What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.
Palle Oswald
#56. Never lose temper or get angry at a person who deserves your love. Remember everyone is craving for and deserves your love.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Appreciation always enhances performance. Criticism destroys the enthusiasm.
Debasish Mridha
#63. We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
Debasish Mridha
#67. When you get lost in love, you become oblivious to oblivion.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.
Max Horkheimer
#70. Find time to admire and appreciate the glittering lights on snowflakes.
Debasish Mridha
#72. My God, is this a date?" Jeff had asked when I asked if I could bring her along.
"I don't know," I said. "She might still be happily lesbian.
Jefferson Bass
#73. Life is not a circle. It is a straight line that has ups and downs.
Joey Lawsin
#74. There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.
Jamie Smith
#75. In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Marc Ashton
#76. Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
#77. Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.
Walter Schloss
#78. I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#79. Plan for the rest of my life, I will travel the world and retire in the himalayas.
Poonam Parihar
#80. I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#81. To fully relate to another, one must first relate to oneself. If we cannot embrace our own aloneness, we will simply use the other as a shield against isolation.
Irvin D. Yalom
#83. To find universal peace, teach yourself and everyone else to be kind, compassionate, and forgiving.
Debasish Mridha
#85. My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.
Julian Jarrold
#86. We are like some particle in motion always moving and meeting other particle.
Santosh Kalwar
#88. The more optimistic you can be the more resilient you will be to whatever challenges life throws at you.
Auliq Ice
#89. There are two kinds of love. One kind you live with, the other you write poetry about.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Being inspired by a great personality is not enough. You have to take actions to succeed.
Debasish Mridha
#91. The journey of life requires alot of enthusiasms, great passion and commitment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. I love the flowers for their beauty and dazzling smile. I love the moon for its soothing light and changing style.
Debasish Mridha
#94. You cannot truly enjoy a flower until you can see her inner beauty and feel her purpose of life.
Debasish Mridha
#95. When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us.
Tariq Ramadan
#96. Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if broken!
Avijeet Das
#97. I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.
Jaden Smith
#98. Wisdom is being able to see the world for what it is, rather than what you want it to be.
Patrick F. Rooney
#99. Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.
Scarlett Thomas
#100. Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage.
Debasish Mridha
