Philosophy Quotes
3538 quotes by 1906 authors
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
— Hannah Arendt
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
— Aristotle
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
— Aristotle
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Perception is reality.
— Lee Atwater
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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We live on the leash of our senses.
— Diane Ackerman
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
— Francis Bacon
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
— Francis Bacon
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's…
— Erykah Badu
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made…
— Alan Ball
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
— Douglas Adams
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Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend…
— Roseanne Barr
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
— John Adams
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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