Philosophy Quotes

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

The map is not the territory.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

I think personal style starts from within because it´s a philosophy and an attitude. If you´re honest and true to yourself, you will have the best sense of personal style.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

It's always been my philosophy: Turn the page. If something falls through, turn the page. It's over with, get used to it, get on with it. Very simple. It's always worked for me.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.

No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

I thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

What comes, is called.