Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be… — John Stuart Mill
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.… — Oscar Peterson
Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings. — Albert Einstein
The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available within each one… — Misha Collins
I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church… — Peter Jurasik
I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh. — Michael Jackson
Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that… — David Gilmour
Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This… — Joseph Stalin
I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the… — Jorie Graham
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the… — Colin McGinn
Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic views of our… — Jaak Panksepp
You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the… — George F. R. Ellis
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and… — Alexander Nehamas
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied… — Natalie Zemon Davis
Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need… — John Burnside
So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what… — Thrity Umrigar
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going… — Lana Del Rey
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only… — Carl Jung
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for… — Jacques Derrida
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must… — Hubert H. Humphrey
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are… — Joseph Brodsky
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. — Emile M. Cioran
Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way… — Robert Nozick

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