Philosophy Quotes
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“What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.”
Quote by -William James
“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.”
Quote by -William James
“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”
Quote by -William James
We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that's centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society. We are also a company that understands community.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.
Quote by -Ibn Khaldun
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.
Quote by -Louis Pasteur
"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."
Quote by -Ambrose Bierce
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"I've been close to Dan and Kathryn for years and impressed by their financial ideas and philosophies. This new institute and release of their new program will allow them to achieve their dream of helping their fellow man as well as giving new hope to those in financial need."
Quote by -Denis Waitley
"Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life."
Quote by -Dale Carnegie
“Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The man who indulges us in this natural passion, who invites us into his heart, who, as it were, sets open the gates of his breast to us, seems to exercise a species of hospitality more delightful than any other. No man, who is in ordinary good temper, can fail of pleasing, if he has the courage to utter his real sentiments as he feels them, and because he feels them.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Two different sets of philosophers have attempted to teach us this hardest of all the lessons of morality. One set have laboured to increase our sensibility to the interests of others; another, to diminish that to our own. The first would have us feel for others as we naturally feel for ourselves. The second would have us feel for ourselves, as we naturally feel for others.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a grey-hound, or a grey-hound from a spaniel, or this last from a shepherd's dog. Those different tribes of animals, however, though all of the same species are of scarce any use to one another. The strength of the mastiff is not in the least supported either by the swiftness of the greyhound, or by the sagacity of the spaniel, or by the docility of the shepherd's dog. The effects of those different geniuses and talents, for want of the power or disposition to barter and exchange, cannot be brought into a common stock, and do not in the least contribute to the better accommodation and conveniency of the species. Each animal is still obliged to support and defend itself, separately and independently, and derives no sort of advantage from that variety of talents with which nature has distinguished its fellows. Among men, on the contrary, the most dissimilar geniuses are of use to one another; the different produces of their respective talents, by the general disposition to truck, barter, and exchange, being brought, as it were, into a common stock, where every man may purchase whatever part of the produce of other men's talents he has occasion for.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.”
Quote by -Aesop
“The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.
Quote by -Yukio Mishima
The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.
Quote by -Yukio Mishima
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
Quote by -Yogi Berra
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
Quote by -Will Durant
But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts.
Quote by -Will Durant
Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt—particularly to doubt one’s cherished beliefs, one’s dogmas and one’s axioms.
Quote by -Will Durant
For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience?
Quote by -Will Durant
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
Quote by -Thomas Aquinas
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.
Quote by -Thomas Aquinas
Our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.
Quote by -Thomas Aquinas
As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
Quote by -Tom Stoppard
My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.
Quote by -Tommy Lee
There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.
Quote by -Salma Hayek
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Quote by -Samuel Beckett
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Quote by -Arthur Schopenhauer
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Quote by -Arthur Schopenhauer