Philosophical Quotes · Page 21

Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.

— Karen Salmansohn

“if you are unwilling to change, do not enter into philosophical arguments”

— Elif Shafak

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

— Socrates

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

— Friedrich Engels

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

— David Mitchell

“Money Value of Time" is more valuable than "Time Value of Money", you will know it by time.”

— Hasan M. Makky

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

— Robert Breault

“Odd how the impossible negation of death — the sudden absence of life where once there was promise — can stimulate an…

— Bruce Duffy

Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

— Roger Zelazny

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my…

— Wynton Marsalis

The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay…

— Peter Bayne

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a…

— Fernando Pessoa

“After having everything, a rich man seeks applause and reverence, for there is guilt in his mind. The guilt of having everything…

— Abhaidev

“When dreaming is better than reality we're living What's the sense of waking up in a nightmare?”

— Joshua Natad

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

— Michel de Montaigne

As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion,…

— Fritjof Capra

The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are people who wake up every morning look in the mirror and wonder if the world sees them the same way…

— Rayvon Reid

“One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. It…

— Albert Camus

Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I…

— Heinrich Heine

“It’s not a story that leads the reader to philosophical thoughts. And it’s not a philosophical treatise that needs a story to…

— Clarice Lispector

“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and…

— Taf Teh

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

— Kedar Joshi

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

— Victor Hugo

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.

— Randall Jarrell

“Better to have too much time to manage, than too much money that manages all your time”

— Benny Bellamacina

“In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Do all the work you while you still have strength.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

— Hedy Lamarr

“Hiding things is the most foolish thing that annihilates correlation.”

— Waqas Bin Ehsan

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Am Anfang war Gott? It may have been true, but it was not germane.”

— Stephen Craig

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The most formidable thing standing between your dreams and you ; is you”

— rassool jibraeel snyman