Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about… — Simon Blackburn
Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a… — Jack Donovan
To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings.… — Grace Lee Boggs
Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can… — Charles Spurgeon
Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires… — Eric Voegelin
Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is the dimension of… — Antony Flew
The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These… — Kate Wilhelm
In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of… — Arthur Danto
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be… — Stephen Cole Kleene
There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got… — Carl Sagan
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to… — Michel Onfray
If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a… — David G. McAfee
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations… — Roger Ebert
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. — Thomas Huxley
Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how… — Dalai Lama
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers. — Paul Tillich
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a… — William James
Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only. — Friedrich Nietzsche
That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever? — Adam Carolla
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed… — Kenny Smith
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it.… — Mark Twain
In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names… — William Herschel
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described… — Fred Hoyle
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some… — Robert Nozick
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is… — Hermann von Helmholtz

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