Philosophical Quotes · Page 13

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

— Anonymous

To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances.

— Wallace D. Wattles

When I die I'm going to Heaven and I'll make my mark, if you get there before me rub it out.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

— Meister Eckhart

“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.”

— André Gide

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

— Roald Dahl

Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines.

— Anonymous

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it…

— James Richardson

“Most important thing in life is family, Without them you are nothing. Whatever you do will be worth nothing, If there is…

— Akash Lakhotia

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance.…

— Joshua Slocum

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

— Herbert Read

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical…

— David Bohm

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of…

— Steve Nash

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be…

— George Berkeley

Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as…

— Max Horkheimer

The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound,…

— Julian Baggini

This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms…

— Paris Reidhead

Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the…

— Jasper Fforde

The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is…

— Herman Melville

Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution…

— Natalie Zemon Davis

I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the…

— William James

I think, therefore I am. I'm pink, therefore Im spam.

— Cartesian

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

— Epicurus

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

— John Locke

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

— Mark Twain

He's just cool and he likes my style. That ain't a crime.

— Ramandeep Singh

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

— Kedar Joshi

“I really can’t stomach you when you get all philosophical.”

— maya banks

“She was starting to think that it might be fun to be in control of the universe.”

— Nicki Elson

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

— Epicurus

“The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.”

— Benny Bellamacina

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

— Cornelius Van Til

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

— Thomas Bernhard

“I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

— Jonathan Ive

It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.

— Eugene Ionesco

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself

— Hermann Hesse