Philosophy Quotes

Everything may happen.

— Seneca the Younger

Express to Impress

— Shashank Rayal

All the world's a stage.

— William Shakespeare

“Smile to lighten up.”

— Debasish Mridha

“We are what we build”

— Lois Farfel Stark

“Zu den Sachen selbst!”

— Edmund Husserl

“Sunbathe from within.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Love gives you eyes.”

— Peter Kreeft

Civilization is paralysis.

— Paul Gauguin

I guess I was a philosophical child.

— Mara Wilson

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

“Ethics, in my view, is a navigation problem.”

— Anonymous

“Listen with an open heart”

— William O'Brien

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

— Lou Reed

To grow a philosopher's beard.

— Horace

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

— Anonymous

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

— Jamie Lidell

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“By forgiving, we become free to renew ourselves and open the joyful golden gate of abundance.”

— Debasish Mridha

“As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

“Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“We can check on what people say by seeing what they do.”

— Simon Blackburn

Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.

— Robin Williams

“Animals travel on all fours. Mankind on two. Motorcycling is not a means of transport but an ideology, a nomadic way of…

— Amit Reddy

For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so…

— Stephen Cole Kleene

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

— Leigh Steinberg

“It is the forgetfulness of these principles which as made for the anarchy in thinking in so much of the anemic philosophy…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition…

— Anonymous

they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God…

— William Tyndale

A vendor selling coconuts on the road is a philosopher. He will have ideas on politics, economics, history, sports. This has saved…

— Gulzar

If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong…

— Gail Fine

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

— John Ruskin

“We stand at the gates of an important epoch, a time of ferment, when spirit moves forward in a leap, transcends its…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner…

— Emily Post

“songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality.…

— Bob Dylan

My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something…

— Gautama Buddha

If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“We have been warned frequently about the dangers of science without ethics, but history without ethics poses a similar threat. Too often…

— Criss Jami

If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions…

— Lawrence M. Krauss