Philosophy Quotes · Page 180

“A grandmother’s love is selfless all the way to the bones.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.”

— Therese Doucet

“The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.”

— Stefan Molyneux

I think my opinion of Hollywood must stem from my own, philosophy as a man.

— Sterling Hayden

“Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.”

— Pindar

“The pen is one of the most potent of weapons in a revolution”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

— Voltaire

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

— Robert Zend

Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to…

— J. Arthur Thomson

From a philosophical standpoint, there's certain things I really, really believe in offensively that would probably be broad-stroke things.

— Billy Donovan

“Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and…

— Heraclitus

“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it,…

— William J. Clinton

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

— Plato

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of…

— Plato

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact..

— Ken Follett

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I…

— Michael Eisner

“All of Dostoevsky’s heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule.…

— Albert Camus

“Hume hummed in his head. Reason versus passion- David versus Goliath. Let the Goliath win for one last time. But the world…

— Aporva Kala

“Linnaeus's last lesson, of which he himself was unaware, was that professorships kill philosophers. Oh, I'm vain enough to want my burgeoning…

— David Mitchell

I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we…

— Douglas R. Oberhelman

When I speak about the "tyranny of choice," I mean an ideology that originates in the era of post-industrial capitalism. It began…

— Renata Salecl

“Luther explained his philosophy this way: “I must let the literal words go and try to learn how the German says that…

— Ron Rhodes

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

— Lou Reed

I strongly believe that one of the best philosophies of life is to be your own philosopher.

— Anonymous

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

— Walter Savage Landor

My dad was a taxi driver - he's a long distance lorry driver now - and he has an amazing work ethic.

— Rob Beckett

“I am not always capable of expressing myself to you, but I can always feel your deep desires.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

— Amit Kalantri

“No one can erase or steal those sweetest memories of love.”

— Debasish Mridha

“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.”

— John Daniel

“The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

— Dino De Laurentiis

“Intention creates a way for your mind to walk on to go to some unknown destination.”

— Debasish Mridha

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

— Anonymous

“These revolutions are born of hope, and their philosophies are formally optimistic.”

— Brinton Crane

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

— Frank Zappa

Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.

— Gloria Vanderbilt