Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of… — Joshua Slocum
We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of… — Thomas Kuhn
We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want… — E. Lockhart
I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it… — Sufjan Stevens
You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation... — Paulo Coelho
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully… — Manuel Puig
The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly… — Ravi Zacharias
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. — Johan Huizinga
Spend time with people who know how to use their days well. Just as iron sharpens iron, positive people will inspire you to be positive. — Rihanna
As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and… — David Cronenberg
...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable… — Pope Dionysius
It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our… — Jim Rohn
This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms and biblical doctrine… — Paris Reidhead
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. — Johann Georg Hamann
The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws of nature and… — Elizabeth S. Anderson
Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken — Michael Gungor
Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of… — Irving Kristol
Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks,… — Honore de Balzac
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion… — Theodore Sturgeon
The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions of… — James Jeans
It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe… — Bertrand Russell

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