Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

The good is the beautiful. — Plato
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. — Plato
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. — Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. — Socrates
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another. — Plato
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. — Plato
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. — Socrates
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. — Socrates
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. — Plato
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. — Plato
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. — Plato
Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror,… — Cheryl Clarke
By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell the… — Tom Standage
I welcome this chance to further strengthen the unbreakable ties between the United States and Israel and to assure you of our commitment to Israel's… — Ronald Reagan
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic. — Aristotle
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. — Aristotle
Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature… — Franz Joseph Gall
You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded… — Stanley Kubrick
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and… — Charles Baudelaire
It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head… — Martin Luther
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth. — Victor Pelevin
What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you.… — Russell Banks
On whether his church still holds that God the Father was once a man, [Hinckley] sounded uncertain, `I don't know that we teach it. I… — Gordon B. Hinckley
My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people… — Antoni Tapies
Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the… — Howard Lyman

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