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
...
28
29
30
31
32
 		...
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
- Thomas Sowell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is a cowboy's hardest ride.
- CB Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.
- Maimonides
The Guide for the Perplexed
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss
- Ai Yazawa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.
- Margaret Atwood
The Robber Bride
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only person who needs forgiveness is the one who doesn't deserve it.
- Stephen Adly Guirgis
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
On Duties
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hoarded things might easily become a menace; a mere fire-and-theft risk; a breeding-ground for destructive insects; a source of worry. Men would have plenty of anxieties, but there was no sense in accumulating worries over THINGS! That kind of worry destroyed your character. Even an unused coat, hanging in your closet—it wasn't merely a useless thing that did nobody any good; it was an active agent of destruction to your life. And your LIFE must be saved, at all costs. What would it advantage a man—Jesus had demanded—if he were to gain the whole world, and lose his own life?
- Lloyd C. Douglas
The Robe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.
- C.G. Jung
The Essential Jung: Selected Writings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise...embrace the entity of yourself...you are a puzzle piece and you are meant to be puzzling.
- Kaiden Blake
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Hymn of the Universe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing the explanation of natural phenomena to the smallest possible number of primitive natural laws; and, in mathematics, of unifying the treatment of different topics by using a generalization. Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness. I want to say here that it can never be our job to reduce anything to anything, or to explain anything. Philosophy really is “purely descriptive.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way.
- Noah Benshea
Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?
- Marguerite Yourcenar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.
- Charles S. Peirce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
- Aidan Chambers
Postcards from No Man's Land
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.
- Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's officers who committed terrible crimes, and not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto - and of course, the Manifesto contained many key ideas that are still relevant and important today, long after Stalin has gone. There is a crucial distinction between the book and its effect - it's crucial because if you talk about a book being harmful rather than its effect you begin to legitimise censorship. Abhorrent ideas need to be challenged by better ones, not banned.
- John Farndon
Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxford and Cambridge Questions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
- Thomas Sowell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is a cowboy's hardest ride.
- CB Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.
- Maimonides
The Guide for the Perplexed
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss
- Ai Yazawa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.
- Margaret Atwood
The Robber Bride
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only person who needs forgiveness is the one who doesn't deserve it.
- Stephen Adly Guirgis
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
On Duties
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hoarded things might easily become a menace; a mere fire-and-theft risk; a breeding-ground for destructive insects; a source of worry. Men would have plenty of anxieties, but there was no sense in accumulating worries over THINGS! That kind of worry destroyed your character. Even an unused coat, hanging in your closet—it wasn't merely a useless thing that did nobody any good; it was an active agent of destruction to your life. And your LIFE must be saved, at all costs. What would it advantage a man—Jesus had demanded—if he were to gain the whole world, and lose his own life?
- Lloyd C. Douglas
The Robe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.
- C.G. Jung
The Essential Jung: Selected Writings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise...embrace the entity of yourself...you are a puzzle piece and you are meant to be puzzling.
- Kaiden Blake
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Hymn of the Universe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing the explanation of natural phenomena to the smallest possible number of primitive natural laws; and, in mathematics, of unifying the treatment of different topics by using a generalization. Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness. I want to say here that it can never be our job to reduce anything to anything, or to explain anything. Philosophy really is “purely descriptive.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way.
- Noah Benshea
Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?
- Marguerite Yourcenar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.
- Charles S. Peirce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
- Aidan Chambers
Postcards from No Man's Land
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.
- Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's officers who committed terrible crimes, and not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto - and of course, the Manifesto contained many key ideas that are still relevant and important today, long after Stalin has gone. There is a crucial distinction between the book and its effect - it's crucial because if you talk about a book being harmful rather than its effect you begin to legitimise censorship. Abhorrent ideas need to be challenged by better ones, not banned.
- John Farndon
Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxford and Cambridge Questions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
- Thomas Sowell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is a cowboy's hardest ride.
- CB Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.
- Maimonides
The Guide for the Perplexed
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss
- Ai Yazawa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.
- Margaret Atwood
The Robber Bride
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only person who needs forgiveness is the one who doesn't deserve it.
- Stephen Adly Guirgis
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
On Duties
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hoarded things might easily become a menace; a mere fire-and-theft risk; a breeding-ground for destructive insects; a source of worry. Men would have plenty of anxieties, but there was no sense in accumulating worries over THINGS! That kind of worry destroyed your character. Even an unused coat, hanging in your closet—it wasn't merely a useless thing that did nobody any good; it was an active agent of destruction to your life. And your LIFE must be saved, at all costs. What would it advantage a man—Jesus had demanded—if he were to gain the whole world, and lose his own life?
- Lloyd C. Douglas
The Robe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.
- C.G. Jung
The Essential Jung: Selected Writings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise...embrace the entity of yourself...you are a puzzle piece and you are meant to be puzzling.
- Kaiden Blake
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Hymn of the Universe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing the explanation of natural phenomena to the smallest possible number of primitive natural laws; and, in mathematics, of unifying the treatment of different topics by using a generalization. Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness. I want to say here that it can never be our job to reduce anything to anything, or to explain anything. Philosophy really is “purely descriptive.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way.
- Noah Benshea
Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?
- Marguerite Yourcenar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.
- Charles S. Peirce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
- Aidan Chambers
Postcards from No Man's Land
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.
- Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's officers who committed terrible crimes, and not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto - and of course, the Manifesto contained many key ideas that are still relevant and important today, long after Stalin has gone. There is a crucial distinction between the book and its effect - it's crucial because if you talk about a book being harmful rather than its effect you begin to legitimise censorship. Abhorrent ideas need to be challenged by better ones, not banned.
- John Farndon
Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxford and Cambridge Questions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...
28
29
30
31
32
 		...