Philosophy originated from a Greek word that implies “love for wisdom”. Philosophy deals with life in general or existential issues, religious questions or things connected to knowledge, values and reasons. In ancient times wise men went up the hill to ponder about these questions and wrote books. These books contain priceless pearls of wisdom. Philosophical discourses make us realize how insignificant our individual problems really are when we compare with the greater universe. Quotes on philosophy that are listed below will make you understand a little more about this subject.
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Philosophy Quotes
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
 Rudyard Kipling |
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
Ansel Adams |
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The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
John L. Lewis |
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Jean Paul Sartre |
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Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood |
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant |
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Sigmund Freud |
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy |
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz |
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene |
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G. H. Hardy |
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
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The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.
Alfred Adler |
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If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Marianne Williamson |
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Og Mandino |
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams |
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles |
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We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
Bill Hicks |
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
Stevie Wonder |
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In my nothing, you were everything, to me.
Trent Reznor |
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In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary |
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams |
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
Martha Graham |
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
Mary Wollstonecraft |
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley |
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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley |
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley |
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A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
Margaret Sanger |
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Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Morrie Schwartz |
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So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
Morrie Schwartz |
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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz |
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage |
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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Live or die, but don't poison everything.
Anne Sexton |
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The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all
Arundhati Roy |
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Tecumseh |
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We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
Tracy Chapman |
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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie ten Boom |
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie ten Boom |
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
Carlos Castaneda |
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Angela Davis |
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My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Satchel Paige |
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Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
Gene Simmons |
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Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.
Chris Rock |
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R. D. Laing |
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
David Hume |
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume |
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There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
Deepak Chopra |
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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins |
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I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.
Chad Michael Murray |
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
George MacDonald |
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
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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
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I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.
Charles Manson |
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
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Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.
Tori Amos |
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
Iggy Pop |
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Our theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr |
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I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
Tori Amos |
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