Philosophy Quotes · Page 53

If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I…

— Graham Greene

“. . . no good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding…

— John Ruskin

Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate…

— Terry Pratchett

“After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it…

— Brock Clarke

“Nothing upsets the philosophical mind more than when he hears that from now on all philosophy is supposed to lie caught in…

— Friedrich Schelling

“Life is the greatest teacher because it educates even those who really hate to learn.”

— Eraldo Banovac

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates…

— Victor Hugo

A cult is a religion with no political power.

— Tom Wolfe

“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato…

— Dallas Willard

“Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.”

— Anonymous

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

— Frances Wright

“Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.”

— Willard Van Orman Quine

As Hamlet tells his friend, ``There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well…

— Gregory Chaitin

I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around.…

— Jim Butcher

“Sorrow comes from fear, fear comes from insecurity, insecurity comes from psychological obscurity, which is the lack of wisdom.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The rights of the individual are more important than the wishes of the masses.”

— J.Adam Snyder

“Let’s be honest: nothing stays pure once humans get involved.”

— Rove Monteux

“Truth is unoriginal.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.”

— Oakley Hall

“Crowd is just a bunch of heads, it is their leader who is the mind.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've loved physics from a young age, but I've also been interested in all sorts of big questions, from philosophy to evolution…

— Sean M. Carroll

To create value in the world, we must first recognize our own individual identity.

— Senoraroy

“Love loves and in loving always looks beyond what it has in hand and possesses. The driving impulse [*Triebimpuls*] which arouses may…

— Max Scheler