Philosophical Quotes · Page 28

“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

— Ayn Rand

You can either carry a torch or light or be a torch of light. Were all meant to illuminate each other in…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“E se a minha vida não fôr mais do que um processo de materialização, através do qual eu dou forma a imagens…

— Haruki Murakami

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns…

— Eckhart Tolle

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

— Douglas Coupland

We miraculously become what we read. The mind is the sculptor of ones-self, amazingly creating the essence of who we are.

— Johnny Luckett

“Years ago, when I was working on my master's thesis, I went to New York for a semester as an exchange student.…

— James Thompson

“The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the…

— G.K. Chesterton

Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and…

— Ernest Sosa

Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man…

— John Dryden

There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of…

— George Bernard Shaw

You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you…

— John Sayles

“Such philosophical musings risk inviting depression or inefficiency. Better just to fix the problem and move on to the next one. It's…

— Katrina Firlik

“The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true…

— Kamand Kojouri

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

— Michael Gungor

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

— William James

From a philosophical standpoint, there's certain things I really, really believe in offensively that would probably be broad-stroke things.

— Billy Donovan

“How curious it was, [...], that we humans had taken millions of year to crawl up out of the swamps and yet,…

— Alan Bradley

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of…

— Jack Abramoff

Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will.

— Mark Ravenhill

“Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

— Milan Kundera

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by…

— Plutarch

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but…

— Thomas Carlyle

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're…

— John le Carre

“Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses”

— Kamila Shamsie

Believes everything in life happens for a reason. Your struggles help you to grow stronger, people die & babies are born &…

— Ash Sweeney

“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are it's victim and we have no…

— William Glasser M.D

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

— Lady Hester Stanhope

I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not…

— Jonathan Ive

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder…

— Anonymous

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply…

— George Orwell

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

— Eckhart Tolle

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human,…

— Ted Chiang

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I…

— Mahatma Gandhi