Philosophy Quotes

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.

William Butler Yeats

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Plato

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

Paulo Coelho

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

Henry David Thoreau

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

William James

She said, 'It's not life or death, the labyrinth.''Um, okay. So what is it?''Suffering,' she said. 'Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?...Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It'st the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

John Green

Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

Plato

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Plato

There is no school of philosophy that approaches ordinary common sense.

Michael Lipsey

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Jim Rohn

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

Robert Zend

Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are 2 things people at the top can't stand, they have to be leakage and overflow.

Kurt Vonnegut

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Plato

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Jonathan Swift

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.

Bertrand Russell