Top 100 Quotes About Philosophical Philosophy
#2. A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#4. Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.
K. Hari Kumar
#5. I am not apologetic. I don't define or defend my philosophical thoughts. You have to feel them, think about them, imagine them, and then try to understand them. My thoughts are my truths. They may not be your truth, and that is fine with me.
Debasish Mridha
#6. There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
Daniel Dennett
#7. Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#8. 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
#9. We can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.
Albion Fellows Bacon
#11. It's a philosophical minefield!
Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together.
Jonathan L. Howard
#12. The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
Anatole France
#13. You won't comprehend the vitality of literacy until you marry an illiterate.
Kshitij Shringi
#14. Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.
Harshit Walia
#16. Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.
Karl Popper
#17. There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter if not a paragraph or a name in the history of philosophy.
Jorge Luis Borges
#20. A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence
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Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#21. In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.
Mason Cooley
#22. Enjoy this moment. The ultimate fulfilment of the dream will not come close to the dream. Enjoy it
Kamand Kojouri
#23. People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.
Simon Blackburn
#24. Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes
Benny Bellamacina
#25. Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing
Munia Khan
#26. The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#27. I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish.
- Lara, from Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
#30. My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#31. 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
#32. Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#33. It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it.
Sean S. Kamali
#34. Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.
Naum Gabo
#35. The radical questionnings announced by philosophy are in fact circumscribed by the interests linked to membership in the philosophical field, that is, to the very existence of this field and the corresponding censorships.
Pierre Bourdieu
#37. Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world
Munia Khan
#38. I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be based. These principles are the laws and conditions of motions and of forces, which especially relate to philosophy.
Isaac Newton
#39. Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#42. 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
#43. Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.
Virgil
#44. Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.
John Marmysz
#45. The only thing standing between you and your dreams is ... reluctance.
Carroll Bryant
#47. While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.
Richard Kearney
#48. This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
Robert Graves
#49. I still lack a political, religious, and philosophical world view. I change it every month, so I'll have to limit myself to the description of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.
Anton Chekhov
#50. Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.
D.E. Navarro
#51. I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#53. Those who devote themselves to the study of Sacred Scripture should always remember that the various hermeneutical approaches have their own philosophical underpinnings, which need to be carefully evaluated before they are applied to the sacred texts.
Pope John Paul II
#55. Real philosophy is dense, impenetrable, so esoteric as to be unknown and so obscure as to be irrelevant... Maybe what I do is trivial, the philosophical equivalent of a Big Mac and fries
Jacob M. Held
#56. If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again
Munia Khan
#57. Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless ... (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#58. I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.
Sam Harris
#59. When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#60. Every person you meet in your life is your destiny. We alter the course of every life we touch, whether we realize it or not.
Dannika Dark
#61. ...he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu.
Inio Asano
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#66. It's not really outstanding when you're standing out
Outcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout
Munia Khan
#68. Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#70. Try and avoid people who use the word "cant" regularly associate rather with those who say "can" and do
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#71. Phenomenology is not a philosophy ; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.
Colin Wilson
#72. This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love's a dictator.
David Mitchell
#73. When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
Albert Einstein
#74. I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.
Aloysius Martinich
#79. The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values.
Noam Chomsky
#80. I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of
divine vanity.
Kedar Joshi
#81. I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
J.M. Coetzee
#83. In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life.
Marty Rubin
#84. 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
#85. Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place.
Duop Chak Wuol
#86. Accordingly, no book can actually embody the knowledge of anything
of philosophical importance; only a mind can do that, since only a
mind can have this capacity to interpret and reinterpret its own understandings.
John M. Cooper
#87. Certainly, one of the greatest achievements of the human intellectual spirit was the Arabic Translation Movement. Over the course of about 100 years, virtually the entire Greek Scientific and philosophical corpus was either translated or summarized into Arabic (McGinnis, 10).
Jon McGinnis
#88. Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.
Mason Cooley
#89. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.
Bella James
#91. Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#92. Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing what way works. That's what comedy is: you have a topic and you try to just hit it as many different ways as you can.
Kumail Nanjiani
#93. I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.
Philip Kitcher
#94. The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of life. To live like a philosopher is to live, not foolishly, like other men, but wisely and according to universal laws.
Henry David Thoreau
#95. Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill.
Munia Khan
#96. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Confucius
#97. The idea of discussing psychological and philosophical ideas in a visual medium was really exciting to me. I thought I was going to go into philosophy ... and suddenly I found this way to combine that with my love for visual mediums.
Andrew Neel
#98. Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#99. We might feel we have achieved a lot. just take a pause and look back. We will see only darkness ...
Mahesh Shekhar
#100. And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
Michel De Montaigne
