Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. — Robert Breault
There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa. — Robert Breault
If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe. — Robert Breault
Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze. — Robert Breault
There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. — Robert Breault
I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here. — Robert Breault
We are each a dozen people who were all the same child. — Robert Breault
You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have… — Rajneesh
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. — Alfred North Whitehead
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller. — Antonio Porchia
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical,… — Socrates
The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and… — Christopher Tolkien
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for… — S I Hayakawa
The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles. — E L Doctorow
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and… — George Santayana
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered… — John Berger
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. — Walter Pater
The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with… — Maxim Gorky
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. — Thomas Sydenham
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. — Leo Tolstoy
It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for… — Aldo Leopold
I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend… — Dave Barry
I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political… — Ellen Barkin
In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late… — Jean Shepherd

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