Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. — Stanley Fish
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the underbelly of the… — Unknown Author
You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally… — Moses Mendelssohn
The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There… — Jeffrey Hunter
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe… — Robert Nozick
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is… — Unknown Author
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather… — John Quiggin
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us… — Rodney Brooks
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad. — Michel de Montaigne
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness. — Wilhelm Wundt
I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to… — Anton Chekhov
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within… — Bertrand Russell
When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was… — George Wald
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of… — Arthur Peacocke
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical… — Harold Bloom
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned… — John Dryden
On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as… — Dalai Lama
The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation rather than of… — James H. Cone
The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind… — Erich Heller
The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be… — Quentin Crisp
The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics. — Victor J. Stenger

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