Best Philosophy Sayings
3538 Philosophy quotes by 1830 unique authors
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Philosophy changes day by day.
— Sarah Brightman
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
— Edward Albee
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The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words,…
— James Buchan
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
— John Burroughs
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
— William S. Burroughs
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
— Samuel Butler
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I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have…
— Herman Cain
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Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had…
— Herman Cain
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
— Albert Camus
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
— Albert Camus
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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
— Albert Camus
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
— Albert Camus
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The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on…
— George Carlin
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When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
— George Carlin
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People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.
— George Carlin
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I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.
— Jim Carrey
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
— Lewis Carroll
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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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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
— John Jay Chapman
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
— Anton Chekhov
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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
— Anton Chekhov
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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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