Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will… — George Orwell
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious. — George Gaylord Simpson
There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But… — Brad Carson
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us… — Gaston Bachelard
Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal… — Deepak Chopra
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. — Karl Marx
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of… — Bell Hooks
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means… — Aleister Crowley
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. — Freda Adler
That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless — Plato
The only thing I know is that I know nothing — Socrates
I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing — Socrates
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings… — Plato
An unexamined life is a life of no account. — Socrates
The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is… — Socrates
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or… — Socrates
Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt. — Dalai Lama
The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on… — Dalai Lama
The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic. — Vicki Lewis Thompson
The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they… — James Richardson
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds. — Plato
Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally… — Richard D. Ryder
Wisest is he who knows what he does not know. — Plato
What is honored in a country will be cultivated there. — Plato

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