Short Philosophical Quotes

#1. In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.

George Lakoff

#2. 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

#3. It's hard to hold all the balls together in the arms and run, somehow, anyhow they fall. I collect and they fall again.

Himmilicious

#4. 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

#5. The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#6. 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

#7. And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

Voltaire

#8. I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it, and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it.

Diana Princess Of Wales

#9. My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.

George W. Bush

#10. I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job!

Hilton Als