Quotes on Philosophy
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
-- EuripedesPhilosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
-- Ambrose BierceThe incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them
-- Baron de la Brede et de MontesquieuThe modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
-- John Kenneth GalbraithThe philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & JonesThe point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
-- Bertrand RusselThe society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
-- John W(illiam) GardnerThe stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
-- Jonathan SwiftThere are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live
-- Henry David Thoreau
-- FortuneThis is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
-- Dalai LamaTo persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective
-- David GutersonWe are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
-- Mikhail GorbachevWe are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
-- Mikhail Sergeyevich GorbachevWe must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility.
-- Barbara Charline JordanWithout music life would be a mistake
-- Friedrich NietzscheYour philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors
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