Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant… — Victor Hugo
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding… — Zelda Fitzgerald
Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we… — Jasper Fforde
I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make… — Boris Pasternak
Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings. — Dalai Lama
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The best things in life make you sweaty. — Edgar Allan Poe
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration.… — Isaac Newton
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people. — Isobelle Carmody
The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. — Robert M. Pirsig
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a… — Ray Bradbury
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will… — J M Coetzee
If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be… — Richard P. Feynman
We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices... — Woody Allen
With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea? — Pablo Neruda
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has… — J M Coetzee
Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the… — Mary Balogh
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All… — Shashi Tharoor
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I… — Marcel Proust
Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die. — Jostein Gaarder
The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something,… — Ted Dekker
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it. — Roald Dahl
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. — Italo Calvino

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