Philosophy Quotes

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequ...

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage...

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk ...

That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.

Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why shoul...

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But ...

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was someth...

I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian... The two were engaged in disputation and ...

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, relig...

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of ou...

[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece...

The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-...

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is enta...

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather suffici...

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing b...

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

Moments are the elements of profit

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; th...

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society t...

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the rulin...

As individuals express their life, so they are.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspe...

A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead ...

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the bes...

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in ...

Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you...

The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.

They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophica...

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about ev...

Третье великое препятствие человеческого самопознания — по крайней мере в нашей западной культуре — ...

The Master, by residing in the Tao,sets an example for all beings.Because he doesn't display himself...

Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lackin...

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods Tha...

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape cla...

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

Existence is beyond the power of wordsTo define:Terms may be usedBut are none of them absolute.In th...

One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good ...

He who is in harmony with the Taois like a newborn child.Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,bu...

If you understand others you are smart.If you understand yourself you are illuminated.If you overcom...

(So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he ...

Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoug...

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad...

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for Death it has an entire set.

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the t...

Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those t...

If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the sign...

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about me...

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court c...

We are shocked by thieves taking pride in their clever touch, prostitutes in their depravity and mur...

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else i...

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know ...

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrific...

Imagine a problem in psychology: to find a way of getting people in our day and age - Christians, hu...

It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered go...

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If the...

One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which mean...

Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishmen...

There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in pro...

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face...

Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião qu...

They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat...

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledg...

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallo...

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare."Exactly so," sai...

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it ...

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "...

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time an...

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that'...

Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the sam...

It’s a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . ‘By this act, I bring one death into the world.’...

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are pe...

I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in...

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasura...

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.