Top 100 World Philosophy Quotes
#1. If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.
Oli Anderson
#2. Resentment is the little fire that can transform and destroy the world by becoming a wildfire.
Debasish Mridha
#3. If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.
C. G. Jung
#5. It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do is give another twist to a normal madness.
John N. Gray
#6. I've never been one to go to church, but I've al was ways believed in a creative intelligence behind the ongoing riddle of the world.
Bill Clegg
#7. There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love.
Debasish Mridha
#8. It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.
Erich Maria Remarque
#9. Yoga may teach you how to reveal your inner joy and inner beauties that beautify this world.
Debasish Mridha
#10. The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime.
Anonymous
#11. This world is as loving as much as you love this world.
Debasish Mridha
#12. If we think about the world peace as much as we think about what to eat next time only for a month, peace will be there.
Debasish Mridha
#13. When I started to focus on all the beauty all around me, my whole world became amazingly beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
#14. Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
William Ralph Inge
#15. You are the world. Everything that you see around you is a reflection of your soul and mind.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Find calmness in storms. Find beauty in ugliness. Find peace in the midst of war. Now expand it. Only people with a higher consciousness can do this. It will make the world a better place for mankind.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#18. To do nothing is to welcome Dante's hell - cramped and starving, weltering in Sin. And so boldly I have taken action. Some will recoil in horror, but all salvation comes at a price. One day the world will grasp the beauty of my sacrifice.
Dan Brown
#19. A rational human being of the civilized world would be like the swan that can draw the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water.
Abhijit Naskar
#20. If everyone's purpose of life is to be happy, kind, caring, and compassionate, this world will become heaven.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Look. If I touch you with this hand, I can remember touching you, but I can't prove I ever did. If reality is nothing more than what is in our mind ... then what is the difference between this world and a dream?
Kaori Ozaki
#22. We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
Marcel Proust
#23. Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.
Christof Koch
#24. Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.
Nenia Campbell
#25. The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
George Henry Borrow
#26. When I found you, I found my world where I can get lost without any reason.
Debasish Mridha
#27. In the mirror you see the reflection of your face. In the world you see the reflection of your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.
Mark Doty
#29. The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it
David Eddings
#30. When we will learn to see, not you and me, but only we, then there will be peace in this world.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.
C. G. Jung
#32. In this modern world it is easy to be complex but difficult to be simple. At least try to keep your mind simple.
Debasish Mridha
#33. You can conquer this world only one way: by loving everything, everybody, and the world.
Debasish Mridha
#34. Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
William James
#35. The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
George Bernard Shaw
#36. Let the power of your love change the world, but never let the problems of this world change the beauty of your love.
Debasish Mridha
#37. 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
#38. You are magnificent and unique. Love yourself and stay unique and you will beautify this world with your unique art of life.
Debasish Mridha
#39. The water never stops, never gives up, and denies no faults in the path it takes," he explained, my eyes still focused down the ravine, "It moves silently, only a mere trickle to entertain itself as it causes a massive gash in the world. This, Zack, is true power.
Daniel "Z" Hastings
#40. The natural world is a world of war; the natural man is a warrior; the natural law is tooth and claw. All else is error. A condition of combat everywhere exists. We are born into perpetual conflict. It is our inheritance, even as it was the heritage of previous generations.
Ragnar Redbeard
#41. Nature suffers the most but never complains. Flowers never forget to bloom and beautify the world.
Debasish Mridha
#42. Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived.
Stefan Molyneux
#43. I believe our philosophy of conscious capitalism will eventually be widely adopted primarily because it is a better way to do business, and it creates more total value in the world for all of its stakeholders.
John Mackey
#44. Everything returns and renews itself. The difference now is that the rate of these returns has increased, in both space and time, in an unheard-of fashion. Now my thoughts can circle the globe in minutes. Entire passages of world history are played out in a couple of years.
Frigyes Karinthy
#45. Religion, as it is generally taught all over the world, is said to be based upon faith and belief, and, in most cases, consists only of different sets of theories, and that is the reason why we find all religions quarrelling with one another.
Abhijit Naskar
#46. If some people want to believe in Jesus, or Mohammed, or Buddha, or their ancestors, who is to say which is right and which wrong? It seems to me that most of the religions in the world are too dogmatic. They preach the 'live and let live' philosophy, but rarely do they practise it.
Gerald Durrell
#48. Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality
Jordan Petersen
#49. The academic world doesn't invite you to try to walk on two feet all the time. And in philosophy especially ... it's a very intimidating place. The intimidation can be very thin, or it can stop you.
Stanley Cavell
#51. Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
Stefan Molyneux
#52. Enjoy the world while you can I say. A shallow enough philosophy by which to live, but shallow is what I've got. Besides deep is apt to drown you.
Mark Lawrence
#53. It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
Vivienne Westwood
#54. To beautify the world, let your love bloom like a flower.
Debasish Mridha
#56. To enjoy the beauty of the world, don't try to fit in. Try to fly out of your perceived boundaries.
Debasish Mridha
#57. The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values and purposes that should direct his conduct is the deepest problem modern life. It is the problem of any philosophy that is not isolated from life.
John Dewey
#58. Peace should be the only highway of life that we should build all over the world.
Debasish Mridha
#59. No matter how much people recognize you, or how popular you are with them, you will be unhappy unless you acknowledge yourself. True recognition does not only come from those around you or the world. It comes when you recognize and love yourself
Ilchi Lee
#60. The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.
Neil Peart
#61. ...and from here I realized, with the deepest sense of my being, that we can erect and dismantle the great walls of the world, but we will only truly survive as a species when we dedicate ourselves to removing the walls from within.
Dawn Kohler
#62. When you believe, the whole world with all of her positive-synchronized power dares to help you.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Radiate your lights of love to enlighten the whole world, like the sun.
Debasish Mridha
#64. Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.
Edward Everett
#65. What is natural, needs to be looked upon, scrutinized and reshaped by each generation of the world, to make it compatible with the path of progress of a civilized society.
Abhijit Naskar
#66. Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes he preferred writers and sometimes he preferred people.
Malcolm Bradbury
#67. My visits to Hungary over the past twelve years absolutely fixed my conviction that God's Holy Spirit was releasing a spiritual force in that part of the world that was bound to challenge the atheistic philosophy that had dominated nations in that region for decades.
Billy Graham
#69. And I love that all their overdone liberal bullshit totally backfired," he said. "Of course it did. People are assholes. End of story."
"The world according to Sebastian Tate."
"It's a philosophy that has gotten me far in life.
Kate Scelsa
#70. A handful of lion-hearts can wake the whole world up.
Abhijit Naskar
#71. Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
Dejan Stojanovic
#72. Laughter is the hand of God on the shoulder of a troubled world.
Grady Nutt
#73. I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.
John Guare
#74. This world is the playing ground of our thoughts and imaginations which create our perceptions.
Debasish Mridha
#75. Her smiles are like the morning sun that illuminates my world.
Debasish Mridha
#76. The measure of life is not by its duration, but by the difference that you have made in this world.
Debasish Mridha
#77. It was no accident that the beau ideal of his (John Adams') political philosophy was balance, since he projected onto the world the conflicting passions he felt inside himself and regarded government as the balancing mechanism that prevented those factions and furies from spending out of control.
Joseph J. Ellis
#78. One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.
Plato
#79. Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there is an escape, to more peaceful and gentler places, and a happier state of mind.
Fennel Hudson
#80. Womi is a world of mortals and immortals where the truth is uncovered. It's main mission is to give out the divine message to the chosen ones.
Womi
#81. The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#82. Teach a child to love his world deeply so that he may find the beauty and joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#83. I was breathing life into the book through my hand, and the book was breathing back out through me into the world. And what was a book but leather? And what was leather but animal skin? And what was paper but a tree, and vellum but lamb? And what was I but an idea?
Wesley Stace
#84. We are brought into this world cold, weak, and helpless. Then it gets worse.
Christopher Titus
#85. In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.
Frederick Lenz
#86. The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
Helen Keller
#88. This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.
Daniel Quinn
#89. To love is to open the window of your heart for all of the beauty of the world to come in and dance with the joy in your soul.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.
Stifyn Emrys
#91. Let kindness be the flower of your heart and fragrance of your mind. Let it fill the world with peace, joy and the fragrance of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#92. Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction.
Teju Cole
#93. There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.
Douglas Preston
#94. Stay simple like a candle, and never forget to enlighten the world.
Debasish Mridha
#95. The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]
Karl Marx
#96. The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.
Norman Thomas
#97. We all see the world through the prism of our identity.
Ethan Hawke
#98. By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.
D.K. LeVick
#99. Love is the most powerful force on this world. You can't touch it but feel it. You can bind together the whole world with it, you can win the war with it. It is faster than light, sharper than laser knife. It is softer than puffer candy but can melt your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#100. I am operating under the philosophy that I will simply use what I need and the rest - even if I still have it somewhere - is not mine. It is others'. It is for the healing of the natural world. And it is in the process of returning.
Tom Shadyac
