Philosophy Quotes · Page 102

It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run

— Anonymous

Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Crazy isn't a condition it's a place and it exists somewhere between Love and Oblivion

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

— William James

I think we're in the time when the metaphysical world is so interesting.

— Alyssa Milano

Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

— Bertrand Russel

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

— Anonymous

Since Mark Richt took his offense from Florida State to Georgia, Florida State has been floundering. They have no identity. They have…

— Lee Corso

“Well...yeah. It just goes to show. (Peabody) Show what (Dallas) You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have…

— J.D. Robb

Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary…

— Thomas Nagel

“The acids of modernity brought about by modern philosophy were just as corrosive for traditional religion as were the ones created by…

— Roger E. Olson

“The production philosophy pioneered by Toyota calls for a focus on those activities that create value for the customer and the systematic…

— Brad Stone

Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.

— Frederick Lenz

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

— Giacomo Leopardi

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a…

— Jacques Derrida

“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to…

— Abhijit Naskar

What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of…

— Anonymous

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering…

— Anthony de Mello

In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as…

— Ray Bradbury

I confess to being something of a philosophical butterfly. The world is full of so many interesting questions, and although my greatest…

— John Kleinig

The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth…

— Denis Diderot

“Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a…

— Sarah Crossan

'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes…

— George R. R. Martin

“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.”

— Lev Shestov

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

— Charles Dickens

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Intolerance breeds hatred. Hatred creates divisions. Divisions destroy common grounds.”

— Mamur Mustapha

“My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul.”

— Janvier Chando

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

— Marcus Aurelius

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Scientific facts alone are futile without a conscientious soul to work on them.”

— Abhijit Naskar

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

— Philip Kitcher

“The life you never live is greater than the wealth you never know”

— Benny Bellamacina

“Music is an unconscious exercise in metaphysics in which the mind does not know it is philosophizing.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is strictly coded with happiness and sorrow. We can't make it work properly without one.

— Shashank Rayal

“A real businessman value his partners like friends and his partnership like friendship.”

— Amit Kalantri

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence,

— Max Picard