Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good. — Unknown Author
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.... — Violet Trefusis
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an… — Stefan Zweig
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has… — Richard P. Feynman
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the… — Tom Robbins
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical… — Michiko Kakutani
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident… — Peter Medawar
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it… — John Searle
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all… — Rudolf Rocker
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro… — Alexander H. Stephens
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all… — Ron Rash
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. — Evan Parker
Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place… — Ibn Khaldun
The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to… — Freeman Dyson
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known… — Daniel Tammet
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we… — Ted Chiang
Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I… — Joel Meyerowitz
Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any… — Boyd Rice
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and… — Chauncey Wright
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover… — Victor Cousin
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to… — Joseph Conrad
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and… — David Bentley Hart
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. — Ruth Stout
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it… — Radhanath Swami

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