Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? — Twyla Tharp
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a… — Jenny Offill
The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is… — Brendan Myers
Anytime I have communicated with college-going people, fresh out of college, looking for a job - money is very important, that is just so important.… — Nimrat Kaur
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they… — August Wilson
I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting… — David Liss
My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering the structure of… — John C. Wright
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters,… — Michel Onfray
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. — Aesop
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio. — Arturo Toscanini
Age carries all things away, even the mind. — Virgil
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. — Sophocles
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of… — James Thomson
There are some remedies worse than the disease. — Publilius Syrus
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. — Marcus Aurelius
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism. — Daniel Bell
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and… — Auberon Herbert
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger… — Asa Gray
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences… — Asa Gray
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports… — Paul Ricoeur
We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern. — Wilhelm Dilthey
The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by… — Thomas Dolby
The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to… — Lawrence Halprin
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. — Plato

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