TOPICS
SPEAKERS
HOME
BROWSE TOPICS
BROWSE SPEAKERS

PHILOSOPHICAL QUOTES

Philosophical quotes offer condensed insights into humanity’s deepest questions. They invite reflection on how we think, live, and relate to the world around us. The following collection serves as a doorway to contemplation, curiosity, and quiet intellectual challenge.    Back

...
103
104
105
106
107
...
NOT YET RATED
Every time you help someone to achieve success, you become more successful. Always help to lift the burdens of others.
NOT YET RATED
In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realization, the person ceases.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
NOT YET RATED
[Truth] will keep your soul from withering and dying while you encounter the inevitable tragedy of life. It will help you avoid the terrible desire to seek vengeance for that tragedy-part of the terrible sin of Being, which everything must bear gracefully, just so it can exist.
- Jordan B. Peterson
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
NOT YET RATED
Even the truth is just a mere thought.
NOT YET RATED
To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
NOT YET RATED
Man, in his blindness, is quite satisfied with himself, but heartily dislikes the circumstances and situations of his life. He feels this way, not knowing that the cause of his displeasure lies not in the condition nor the person with whom he is displeased, but in his very self he likes so much. Not realizing that “he surrounds himself with the true image of himself” and that” what he is, that only he can see,” he is shocked when he discovers that it has always been his own deceitfulness that made him suspicious of others…
- Neville Goddard
Imagining Creates
NOT YET RATED
If you do not enjoy a moment, you lose it forever. If you enjoy it, it is yours forever.
NOT YET RATED
Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
- Erich Maria Remarque
Flotsam
NOT YET RATED
I can kill a bad guy, but I can't save anyone. I'm not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer who shit his pants.
- Samuel Engelen
Vigilante Day
NOT YET RATED
Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.
- Jesús Zamora-Bonilla
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
NOT YET RATED
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
- Noël Coward
A talent to amuse: A biography of Noël Coward
NOT YET RATED
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd
Vanity makes beauty contemptible
Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
- Abraham Verghese
Cutting for Stone
NOT YET RATED
Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.
- Lucretius
NOT YET RATED
Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.
- Ilyas Kassam
NOT YET RATED
An over examination of life can deter you from life itself
- Ilyas Kassam
NOT YET RATED
What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust: Der Tragödie erster und zweiter Teil. Urfaust
NOT YET RATED
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
NOT YET RATED
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
- Casanova
NOT YET RATED
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
NOT YET RATED
What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*
- Josh Gates
Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
NOT YET RATED
the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.
- G.K. Chesterton
The Superstition of Divorce
NOT YET RATED
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
- Alvin Plantinga
Warranted Christian Belief
NOT YET RATED
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
- John Berry
NOT YET RATED
Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
- Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings
NOT YET RATED
Every time you help someone to achieve success, you become more successful. Always help to lift the burdens of others.
NOT YET RATED
In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realization, the person ceases.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
NOT YET RATED
[Truth] will keep your soul from withering and dying while you encounter the inevitable tragedy of life. It will help you avoid the terrible desire to seek vengeance for that tragedy-part of the terrible sin of Being, which everything must bear gracefully, just so it can exist.
- Jordan B. Peterson
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
NOT YET RATED
Even the truth is just a mere thought.
NOT YET RATED
To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
NOT YET RATED
Man, in his blindness, is quite satisfied with himself, but heartily dislikes the circumstances and situations of his life. He feels this way, not knowing that the cause of his displeasure lies not in the condition nor the person with whom he is displeased, but in his very self he likes so much. Not realizing that “he surrounds himself with the true image of himself” and that” what he is, that only he can see,” he is shocked when he discovers that it has always been his own deceitfulness that made him suspicious of others…
- Neville Goddard
Imagining Creates
NOT YET RATED
If you do not enjoy a moment, you lose it forever. If you enjoy it, it is yours forever.
NOT YET RATED
Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
- Erich Maria Remarque
Flotsam
NOT YET RATED
I can kill a bad guy, but I can't save anyone. I'm not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer who shit his pants.
- Samuel Engelen
Vigilante Day
NOT YET RATED
Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.
- Jesús Zamora-Bonilla
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
NOT YET RATED
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
- Noël Coward
A talent to amuse: A biography of Noël Coward
NOT YET RATED
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd
Vanity makes beauty contemptible
Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
- Abraham Verghese
Cutting for Stone
NOT YET RATED
Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.
- Lucretius
NOT YET RATED
Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.
- Ilyas Kassam
NOT YET RATED
An over examination of life can deter you from life itself
- Ilyas Kassam
NOT YET RATED
What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust: Der Tragödie erster und zweiter Teil. Urfaust
NOT YET RATED
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
NOT YET RATED
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
- Casanova
NOT YET RATED
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
NOT YET RATED
What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*
- Josh Gates
Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
NOT YET RATED
the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.
- G.K. Chesterton
The Superstition of Divorce
NOT YET RATED
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
- Alvin Plantinga
Warranted Christian Belief
NOT YET RATED
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
- John Berry
NOT YET RATED
Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
- Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings
NOT YET RATED
Every time you help someone to achieve success, you become more successful. Always help to lift the burdens of others.
NOT YET RATED
In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realization, the person ceases.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
NOT YET RATED
[Truth] will keep your soul from withering and dying while you encounter the inevitable tragedy of life. It will help you avoid the terrible desire to seek vengeance for that tragedy-part of the terrible sin of Being, which everything must bear gracefully, just so it can exist.
- Jordan B. Peterson
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
NOT YET RATED
Even the truth is just a mere thought.
NOT YET RATED
To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
NOT YET RATED
Man, in his blindness, is quite satisfied with himself, but heartily dislikes the circumstances and situations of his life. He feels this way, not knowing that the cause of his displeasure lies not in the condition nor the person with whom he is displeased, but in his very self he likes so much. Not realizing that “he surrounds himself with the true image of himself” and that” what he is, that only he can see,” he is shocked when he discovers that it has always been his own deceitfulness that made him suspicious of others…
- Neville Goddard
Imagining Creates
NOT YET RATED
If you do not enjoy a moment, you lose it forever. If you enjoy it, it is yours forever.
NOT YET RATED
Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
- Erich Maria Remarque
Flotsam
NOT YET RATED
I can kill a bad guy, but I can't save anyone. I'm not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer who shit his pants.
- Samuel Engelen
Vigilante Day
NOT YET RATED
Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.
- Jesús Zamora-Bonilla
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
NOT YET RATED
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
- Noël Coward
A talent to amuse: A biography of Noël Coward
NOT YET RATED
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd
Vanity makes beauty contemptible
Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
- Abraham Verghese
Cutting for Stone
NOT YET RATED
Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.
- Lucretius
NOT YET RATED
Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.
- Ilyas Kassam
NOT YET RATED
An over examination of life can deter you from life itself
- Ilyas Kassam
NOT YET RATED
What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust: Der Tragödie erster und zweiter Teil. Urfaust
NOT YET RATED
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
NOT YET RATED
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
- Casanova
NOT YET RATED
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
NOT YET RATED
What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*
- Josh Gates
Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
NOT YET RATED
the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.
- G.K. Chesterton
The Superstition of Divorce
NOT YET RATED
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
- Alvin Plantinga
Warranted Christian Belief
NOT YET RATED
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
- John Berry
NOT YET RATED
Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
- Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings
...
103
104
105
106
107
...