Philosophy Quotes · Page 172

“The philosopher treats a question ; like an illness .”

— Wittgenstein

“Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.”

— Amit Kalantri

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

— A.J. Ayer

The true philosopher is one who makes people believe that he admires what he does not admire.

— Vikrant Parsai

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

— Jane Addams

There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else’s is unhygienic”

— Benny Bellamacina

Place a grain of sand on top the mountain peak and the minute becomes the king!

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Among philosophical tendencies, existentialism owes much to Gnosticism, and today an increasing number of folk in many walks of life profess to…

— Stephan A. Hoeller

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when…

— Michelle Branch

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…

— William James

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

— St. Jerome

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to…

— Graham Greene

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

— Douglas Coupland

“I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and…

— George Pólya

“When all help is stopped, when your loved ones started doubting your competence, when failure seems almost confirmed, but no matter what,…

— Amit Kalantri

“Nevertheless, a distinction must be made between skepticism as a philosophical thesis and skepticism as an attitude in life. As a philosophical…

— Julián Marías

A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the…

— Friedrich Ratzel

“They are trying to be significant in their universe—trying to mean something more than a random collision of molecules. Though modern philosophy…

— Rory Noland

In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of…

— Andrew Dickson White

All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world.…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Great American thinker and philosopher Earl Nightingale said, “If you spend one extra hour each day in the study of your chosen…

— Abby Beale

“There is no straight way to a destination. So enjoy the ride even when you get lost.”

— Debasish Mridha

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

— Pierre Trudeau

“So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it”

— Jason Najum

“Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.”

— Mo

“I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.”

— Graham Parke

But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.

— Anonymous

“As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.”

— John N. Gray

“Teaching philosophy isn't what I do. Teaching philosophy is, sort of, what I am.”

— Robert C. Solomon

I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.

— Lindsey Buckingham

“No matter where you are spread the fragrance of peace like a flower.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Don't give up on life, or else it might just give up on you”

— Gary Edward Gedalld Gedall

Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.

— Laozi

Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.

— William Carleton

I just Express out my Feelings on a piece of paper... And people says, I am a Writer

— Shashank Rayal

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

— Moliere

“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.”

— Amit Kalantri