Philosophy Quotes

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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
There will be no major solution to the suffering of humanity until we reach some understanding of who we are, what the purpose of creation… — Woody Allen
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature… — Miguel de Unamuno
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things… — Leonardo da Vinci
Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. — Bertrand Russell
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. — Oscar Wilde
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. — W. Somerset Maugham
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows… — John Donne
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians.… — Louis Kronenberger
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end. — Michel de Montaigne
It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. — Thomas Paine
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her. — Isaac Newton
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield
Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers. — Henry David Thoreau
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth. — Denis Diderot
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write. — Finley Peter Dunne
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. — William James
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not… — William Hazlitt
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. — Gloria Vanderbilt
Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. — Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life. — Saint John Chrysostom

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