Philosophy Quotes · Page 109

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

— Aldous Huxley

“My artificial creations will be better than nature's natural creations.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The Philosopher's Motto: I came, I saw, I pondered!”

— Greg Curtis

“Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Robert Hass

“The true essence of vedanta focuses upon subject rather than object.”

— Pawan Parashar

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

— Frederick Lenz

I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion.…

— Wendell Willkie

“Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face…

— Stefan Molyneux

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in…

— Quentin S. Crisp

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness…

— Kitaro Nishida

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage -- everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

— Lee Strobel

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

— Carl Jung

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just…

— Julian Baggini

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man…

— Otto Weininger

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

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

— Gautama Buddha

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to…

— B. R. Ambedkar

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

— Bob Dylan

“. . . 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

“When you forget what you ultimately stand for, you rejoice in blinding ignorance. Missing the bigger picture for the near pleasure is…

— Rakesh Ranjan

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

— Bertrand Russell

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

— Saint John Chrysostom

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

— Heraclitus

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

— Julius Charles Hare

“You are not who you think. You're not even the thinker. You are the one conscious of the thought.”

— Kamand Kojouri

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

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

— Epictetus

“An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.”

— Ilyas Kassam

“I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.”

— Richard Smyth

“My spirituality has to do with equality, ethics and accountability, not aura, incense and vibration.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.

— Xenocrates

“We built machines to answer every question, but forgot to ask what it means to be human.”

— Lawrence Nault

Think small… If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.

— Richard Hugo

“Life is more than we get and possess. It is a mystery!”

— Dr. Vivencio Ballano

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

— Anonymous

Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?

— George Carlin