Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world… — Julian Baggini
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation.… — Julian Baggini
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one — Bruce Lee
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice,… — Albert Schweitzer
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. — Max Ehrmann
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have… — Kurt Vonnegut
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us… — Bertrand Russell
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost. — Marcel Proust
Dancers are the athletes of God. — Albert Einstein
The map is not the territory. — Alfred Korzybski
Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. — Victor Hugo
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. — Markus Zusak
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall. — Eric Clapton
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the… — Albert Camus
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano! — William Shakespeare
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated.… — Richard P. Feynman
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for… — Leo Tolstoy
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts. — Philip Roth
Man is the cruelest animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. — Oprah Winfrey
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live… — Henry David Thoreau

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