Philosophical Quotes · Page 9

“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

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

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

— Benny Bellamacina

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

— Heraclitus

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

— Robert Hass

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

— Paul Tillich

One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

— Dalai Lama

“Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the…

— Benny Bellamacina

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

— Dalai Lama

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

— Charles Simic

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit…

— Primo Levi

“Philosophy without criticism is like hunting deer without a shotgun, so, if you want people to like you, avoid robust philosophical debate.”

— Julian Baggini

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in…

— Harold Bloom

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The…

— Yvonne Korshak

Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment…

— Pierre Hadot

I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect…

— Mark Twain

If sculpture can really deal with the body, because we all inhabit ourselves, and if sculpture can really do that, which it…

— Anish Kapoor

“Even those novelists most commonly deemed “philosophical” have sometimes answered with an emphatic no. Iris Murdoch, the longtime Oxford philosopher and author…

— Iris Murdoch

The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not…

— Brennan Manning

“A philosophical system may stand on the coherence or persuasiveness of its propositions. The church is otherwise. It is not a collection…

— The Protestant Faith George W. Forell

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

— Socrates

“Only those who take responsibility for their mistakes, are rewarded with wisdom”

— Michael Lieber

“My philosophical reasoning doesn’t allow me to humiliate, but to illuminate only.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

It is the distance between us that creates language.

— Robin Skelton

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.

— Michelle Stuart

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

— James Clerk Maxwell

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

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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.”

— Anonymous