Philosophy Quotes

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Co...

May you live every day of your life.

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is ...

Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobe...

Let not the rash marble riskgarrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence,in many words recallingname...

The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the ...

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know wh...

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the...

Awe is what moves us forward.

Maslow's five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothin...

All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls un...

By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while anothe...

Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discover...

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences...

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Every country has the government it deserves.

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; i...

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to buil...

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wonderin...

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, in...

The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things...

For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the m...

We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note t...

Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, ...

Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." An...

So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, whic...

To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of ...

On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in its...

Thinking of things" is but a special way of dealing with them; but, as is obvious, it is a secondary...

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has alwa...

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the momen...

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...