Philosophical Quotes · Page 40

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What…

— Hanif Kureishi

Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same…

— Robert McKee

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis…

— Frederick Lenz

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.”

— Joe Hill

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

— Immanuel Kant

What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto…

— H. L. Mencken

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

— Aldous Huxley

War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual…

— Benito Mussolini

Radio was, in a way, a very philosophical medium. You could make an argument on the radio, and people listened to it.…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat…

— Mark Ravenhill

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general…

— Umberto Eco

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

— John Locke

“Yet if all reality is subjective, all certitude is impossible.”

— Robin Paul Wood

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most…

— Michel de Montaigne

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

— Hans Reichenbach

“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to…

— Sean S Kamali

“One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the…

— Walter Truett Anderson

“Jace turned to look over his shoulder, the wind whipping his hair into tangles. "What are you thinking?" he called back to…

— Cassandra Clare

The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.

— Thomas Huxley

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.

— Henry David Thoreau