Philosophy Quotes

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Edgar Quinet

Sin is a gravitation.

Victor Hugo

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

Antonio Machado

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins and astrology ends, and astronomy begins.

Christopher Hitchens

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Elias Canetti

La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.

Aldous Huxley

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

Bertrand Russell

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

Albert Einstein

Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.

Terry Pratchett

?'If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

Henry David Thoreau

I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.

Orson Scott Card

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence

Anirban Bose

I've read the dictionary book of the following word: Tyranny - To make the laughter stop.It's hard that thousand year olds don't understand.

A Gentlemen

From where it came and to where it goes, I wish I knew, like the river knows.

Kellie Elmore

If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust...flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making others happy, deseases are not the only thing that spreads easy. We are all connected in some form of unseen energy... think how those around you will impact you and make you feel if they were happy?

Al Munoz

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Albert Camus