Philosophy Quotes · Page 415

In the west we think of yoga as an exercise programme, when actually where it's from in India it's a whole philosophy.…

— Jayne Middlemiss

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we…

— Isaac Newton

Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It would probably be wiser to nail up over the door of the new quantum theory a notice, 'Structural alterations in progress…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem…

— Peter Medawar

In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning…

— Al-Ghazali

“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.…

— Sam Harris

“The reckless application of technology, harnessed to greed, degrades and destroys the ecosystems in which the energies of the elements are maintained…

— Ralph Metzner

“(Love’s atopia, characteristic which causes it to escape all dissertations, would be that *ultimately* it is possible to talk about love only…

— Roland Barthes

“Noone has yet succeeded in inventing a philosophy at once credible and self-consistent. Locke aimed at credibility, and achieved it at the…

— Bertrand Russell

There are too many GOOD things and the world is so BEAUTIFUL...Only thing is you should calm your mind and teach your…

— Goutham Aditya Devaguptapu

“One begins to go about with the sluggish step of a philosopher or a clochard , as more and more vital gestures…

— Julio Cortázar

You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep…

— Edward Boyden

“Wisdom was distinguished from mere knowledge by Isaiah (11:2), by Paul (1 Corinthians 12:8–9), and by Scholastic philosophy, which spoke of analytic…

— Richard Rohr

“Remember that your fans are your lifeblood. See that you know who they are, and give them a reason to follow you.…

— Simon Zingerman

Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter,…

— Mario Bunge

“They've been given an explanation of how things came to be this way, and this stills their alarm. This explanation covers everything,…

— Daniel Quinn

“The concept of individual rights is so new in human history that most men have not grasped it fully to this day.…

— Ayn Rand

“One note sounds nice on a piano, but when more than one note is pressed at the same time. It sounds more…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in…

— Gilbert Ryle

“15. “Master Filippus believes that three disciplines define us as humans,” Miri said while they walked to the peat pits. “History, Philosophy,…

— Shannon Hale

“I think that sitting there talking to Dan was a thing that had a great impression on my life. I know that…

— Winston Groom

“Hume is indeed sceptical about the possibility of metaphysical insights that go deeper than science can, he is not at all sceptical…

— David Hume

Here's my philosophy on dating. It's important to have somebody that can make you laugh, somebody you can trust, somebody that, y'know,…

— Brooke Davis

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The…

— Berenice Abbott

“Oh! science! It has reconsidered everything. For thebody and the soul − the viaticum − we now have medicineand philosophy, old wives’…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“The ethic of autonomy is based on the idea that people are, first and foremost, autonomous individuals with wants, needs, and preferences.…

— Jonathan Haidt

It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,…

— John Searle

“I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A belief that the ancients held unusual scientific knowledge, of which only fragments remain today, was held by many great philosophers and…

— David Flynn

Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music,…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Those who are courageous, go headlong. They search all opportunities of danger. Their life philosophy is not that of insurance companies. Their…

— Osho

“You are constantly being trained to be heroic only in the service of your masters - only in slaughter and sacrifice and…

— Stefan Molyneux

I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at…

— Kenny Smith

Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused,…

— Alan Siegel

“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon…

— Criss Jami

What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we…

— Tariq Ramadan

“Human, you are a machine, an organism, an animal, a primate, an artist, an athlete, a thinker, a sponge, a spirit, a…

— Laren Grey Umphlett