Philosophy Quotes · Page 160

“A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity.”

— Raymond M. Smullyan

“If you find yourself cutting corners, go in a circle instead”

— Benny Bellamacina

“philosophy of Marcus Aurelius and some of the work of Seneca.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter.

— Todd Snider

“Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.”

— T.Z. Lavine

“The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Give a monkey a stick and it will learn how to write.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“I live in a place where no one can live, I live in the heart of my beloved mother.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Superficial people consider themselves capable of doing everything. The question, however, is who is willing to hire them?”

— Eraldo Banovac

When your wife says glass is half empty, don't ever pour philosophy of half empty is half full, just fill her glass…

— Adhir Amdavadi

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of…

— Peter Abelard

I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they…

— Swami Vivekananda

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious…

— Ralph Raico

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all…

— Max Weber

“Some change their philosophy of life with every book they read: one book sells them on Freud, the next on Marx; materialists…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same…

— Rafael Vinoly

“There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in…

— Lin Yutang

“A privilege to live in conflict with one’s times. At every moment one is aware one does not think like the others.…

— Emil M. Cioran

The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity…

— Roger Tory Peterson

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and…

— Stephen Crane

“It’s not enough to open the window To see the fields and the river. It’s also not enough to not be blind…

— Alberto Caeiro

“Love yourself so strongly that nothing can derail you or disturbed your peace.”

— Debasish Mridha

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

— Ludwig von Mises

“In a virtually perfect world, reality still remains an inconvenient truth.”

— Phil Pauley

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

— Samuel Butler

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

— Maxim Gorky

“Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.”

— Mary-Jean Harris

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

— Damon Knight

“All the hungers will kill, but hunger of loneliness turns you into a philosopher.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

— Frederick Lenz

“Everyone has an opportunity to die honestly, but not everyone has enough courage to live honestly.”

— Debasish Mridha

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

— Bruce Lee

Of your philosophy you makeno use If you give place to accidental evils.

— William Shakespeare

“Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.”

— Stefan Molyneux

“People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.”

— Amit Kalantri

“ASSERT - Always Stand Strong, Evoking Respect Tacitly”

— Kamil Ali

I was a natural talent, a raw talent. Then I came to Manchester City, and I learned philosophies.

— Nikita Parris