Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but… — Andre Gide
The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable. — Thomas Bernhard
There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of… — Flannery O'Connor
One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves… — Fernando Pessoa
Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair. — Elias Canetti
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or… — Samuel Johnson
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. — Robert Breault
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you… — Seneca the Younger
If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however,… — Plutarch
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these… — Plutarch
Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety… — Plutarch
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. — Unknown Author
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for… — Maimonides
The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a… — Immanuel Kant
I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is… — Henry David Thoreau
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from… — Henry David Thoreau
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and… — Henry David Thoreau
We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also. — Albert Schweitzer
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a… — Albert Schweitzer
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet — Mahatma Gandhi
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard… — Mahatma Gandhi
I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives.… — Mahatma Gandhi

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