Philosophical Quotes · Page 14

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

— Simone Weil

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

— William Shakespeare

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

— Marcel Proust

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

— Victor Hugo

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

— Socrates

“At the heart of all of mankind’s achievements is imagination.”

— R.L. Matthies

“We are philosophers of our time Floating in the moon's evening glow”

— Richard L. Ratliff

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

— T. S. Eliot

“You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing”

— Julia Heywood

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“--perhaps monsters were misunderstood gods; deities with plans too grand for humans; a phantom of evil that drank from the roots of…

— Roshani Chokshi

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

— Anonymous

“Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

— Daniel Dennett

Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect…

— Shashi Tharoor

The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available…

— Misha Collins

Integrity has a high psychological and philosophical value, for many people it is a highest value, it associate with health of soul.…

— Simon Soloveychik

Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are…

— David Hume

Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us…

— Thomas Huxley

Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is…

— Sri Yukteswar Giri

Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent…

— Anonymous

With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship…

— Jeffrey Hunter

“If I breathe, what will my heart think? If I vomit, what will my soul think?”

— Xi Chuan

“If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter.”

— Carroll Bryant

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

— Italo Calvino

No matter what is happening, the tool you need is always the one you don't have.

— Anonymous

“When your diary is full and your life is empty, get a date”

— Benny Bellamacina

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

— Anton Chekhov

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

— Jonathan Ive

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

— Paul Simon

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

— David Hume

“Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.”

— Medvgno

You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.

— Rajneesh

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

— Franz Grillparzer

“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey”

— Amunhotep El Bey

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

— Robert Fulghum

Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview

— Jonathan Ive