Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. — Marcus Aurelius
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea… — Sri Aurobindo
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment… — Jan Peter Balkenende
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. — Daniel Barenboim
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. — Henri Bergson
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. — Henri Bergson
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. — Henri Bergson
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and… — Annie Besant
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of… — Annie Besant
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. — Ludwig Borne
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Who so loves believes the impossible. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. — Edward Albee
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. — John Burroughs
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then. — John Burroughs
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. — Samuel Butler
When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and… — Nicolas Cage
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the… — Albert Camus
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. — Albert Camus
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. — Albert Camus
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. — Thomas Carlyle
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. — Lewis Carroll
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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