Philosophy Quotes

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

After all, it’s what we’ve done that makes us what we are.

But the Dark cannot claim what Light does not surrender.

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

I'm human, you're human. So they said, but inside we're all animals.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'

I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.

My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I dont, I learn from the match and move on.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

Every country has the government it deserves.

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.