Philosophical Quotes · Page 21

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

— W. H. Auden

We all need to be philosophical if we going to traverse the journey of life.

— Anonymous

A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook.

— Marc Forne Molne

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa.

— Robert Breault

The best thing about life is you get to move on.

— Anonymous

Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity.

— Tim Crane

It's not like I have this philosophical answer as to why I love rock.

— Lzzy Hale

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the…

— Barack Obama

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

— Jack Bowman

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know…

— Jackie Mason

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

— George Santayana

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

— Daniel Barenboim

Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which…

— Richard Digance

LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven…

— Paulo Coelho

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. It's wrong to say "everybody," but…

— James Salter

We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which…

— Daniel Tammet

Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I…

— Tom Stoppard

Personally, I've been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been…

— Patrick Hayden

“…philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization…but if professors can truly wield this fatal power,…

— Isaiah Berlin

“It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes…

— Rick Yancey

Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie…

— Ang Lee

“Hunger is a way Of standing outside windows The entering takes away.”

— Emily Dickinson

“I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.”

— James Qualls

“Not knowing is not a problem, not wondering is.”

— Chase Weir

“Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

— Franz Kafka

“Each blank page is an invitation to write; filling the space, however, is a challenge.”

— Paulo Ricardo Zargolin

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

— Voltaire

We become instant philosophers , when masking miseries while projecting optimism.

— Toothangel15

“Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.”

— Paul Auster

“It's best to locate the mind first before launching the 'missiles of contention'.”

— Gasmaskman

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

— Karl Marx

“we live best when we live for a cause greater than ourselves”

— Michael W. Austin

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Heated is what you get when you rub faith and instinct together.”

— Cornelia DeDona

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

— Bion of Borysthenes