Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race… — Edwin Way Teale
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of… — Anatole France
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. — Epicurus
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. — William James
We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game.… — Steve Nash
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no… — George Herbert
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to… — Ayn Rand
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute… — Steven Weinberg
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose,… — Henri Poincare
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my… — Johannes Kepler
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven… — C.S. Lewis
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they… — David Hume
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an… — Freeman Dyson
The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken. — Floyd E. Bloom
Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish… — A.J. Ayer
We live in the best of all possible worlds — Gottfried Leibniz
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
One cannot step twice in the same river — Heraclitus
To be is to be perceived — George Berkeley
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true — Bertrand Russell
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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