Philosophy Quotes

Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?

POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Love had surely made us all and hate would surely make us fall.

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.

But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever.

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

The deepest level of truth uncovered by science, & by philosophy, is the fundamental truth of unity. At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality, you & i are literally one.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.