Philosophy Quotes

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.

And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I ...

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not f...

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on...

I am my world.

But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books...

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over th...

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

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

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that...

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what probl...

There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosoph...

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background ...

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', ...

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language ...

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught...

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be sai...

The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert u...

The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another ...

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic...

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propo...

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have somet...

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaqu...

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still ...

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Language disguises thought.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensi...

Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing ...

Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken.Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, son...

6.4311Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht.Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht u...

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not w...

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us ...

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves...

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made e...

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action ...

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eterna...

What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred...

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Violence begins with the fork.

My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent...

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat con...

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then ph...

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in...

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who...

The universe is flux, life is opinion.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to anot...

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one sp...

You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to ...

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change...

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unre...

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the sense obscure; and the...

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the ...

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

…praise does not make anything better or worse.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to a...

When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetra...

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the futur...

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creatur...

All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both mem...

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; lif...

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind...

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art...

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But w...

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty...

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minu...

By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to yo...

What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very...

They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was jus...

Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosoph...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i...

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what drea...

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only di...

But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a sin...

And if the earth Gods wreak vengeance on the sinless and the sinful alike, then this further destruc...