Philosophy Quotes

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The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key… — Stephen Covey
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way — Havelock Ellis
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal — Al Goldstein
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents. — John Stott
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and… — Neil Postman
Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning… — Robert Heilbroner
Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . .… — Ray Stannard Baker
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy. — Albert Schweitzer
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and… — Pope Gregory XVI
We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all… — Pope Benedict XVI
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. — John Churton Collins
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. — George Santayana
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence. — Charles William Eliot
My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to… — Louisa May Alcott
The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what… — William James
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. — Werner Heisenberg
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism… — Will Durant
We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically… — Leonardo DiCaprio
It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. — William Butler Yeats
Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the… — Stephen Crane
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his… — Leon Bourgeois
Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made… — Rajneesh
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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