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Philosophy quotes (25) It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. George Santayana Category: Philosophy To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. Blaise Pascal Category: Philosophy This 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 Lama Category: Philosophy I have a simple philosophy. Fill whats empty. Empty whats full. And scratch where it itches. Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth Category: Philosophy The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power. Ayn Rand Category: Philosophy Philosophy when superficially studied excites doubt when thoroughly explored it dispels it. Francis Bacon Category: Philosophy PHILOSOPHY n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Philosophy Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. Henry Brooks Adams Category: Philosophy We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. Martin L. Gross Category: Philosophy When I was in school I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. Woody Allen Category: Philosophy In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way. Henry Havelock Ellis Category: Philosophy How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose But musical as is Apollos lute And a perpetual feast of nectard sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns. John Milton Category: Philosophy Science is what you know philosophy is what you don't know. Bertrand Russell Category: Philosophy Until they become conscious they will never rebel and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. George Orwell Category: Philosophy Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty. Will Durant Category: Philosophy To the poet to the philosopher to the saint all things are friendly and sacred all events profitable all days holy all men divine. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Philosophy The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. Edward Gibbon Category: Philosophy In the cathedral at Lubek Germany near the turn of the century was the following inscription: Ye call me master and obey me not; Ye call me light and seek me not; Ye call me way and walk me not; Ye call me wise and follow me not; Ye call me fair and love me not; Ye call me rich and ask me not; Ye call me eternal and seek me not; Ye call me gracious and trust me not; Ye call me noble and serve me not; Ye call me mighty and honor me not; Ye call me just and fear me not; If I condemn you blame me not. Unknown Category: Philosophy My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. Louisa May Alcott Category: Philosophy To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts not even to found a school but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity independence magnanimity and trust. Henry David Thoreau Category: Philosophy Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Philosophy I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be mans guide in the foreseeable future; however they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few. Albert Einstein Category: Philosophy There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angels wings. John Keats Category: Philosophy Philosophy is the science which considers truth. Aristotle Category: Philosophy There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare Category: Philosophy |
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