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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.
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NOT YET RATED▼
In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.
- Virchand Raghavji Gandhi
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED▼
In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.
- Mark Rowlands
The Philosopher and the Wolf
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.
- Stonewall Jackson
Topic: Philosophical
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Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Love life, Live Love
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Education is meaningless without manners
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly Poems for Children, v.2
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
- Francis Bacon
The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only 'pseudo problems,' because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless. Many of the traditional problems of philosophy, of religion, or of ethics, are of this character. Consider, for example, the problem of the freedom of the will. You maintain that you are free to take either the right- or the left-hand fork in the road. I defy you to set up a single objective criterion by which you can prove after you have made the turn that you might have made the other. The problem has no meaning in the sphere of objective activity; it only relates to my personal subjective feelings while making the decision.
- Percy Williams Bridgman
The Nature of Physical Theory
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED▼
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
- Daniel C. Dennett
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
If everyone wants to be somebody, I want to be somebody else
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
- J.M. Coetzee
The Lives of Animals
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.
- Mary Midgley
The Myths We Live By
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
- Emil Cioran
The Book of Delusions
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with the irresistible power of a diamond.
- Thomas Paine
The Crisis
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend will go to voicemail or an assistant, and you decide not to bother.
- Zack Love
The Syrian Virgin
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Tapi Tuhan juga seperti punya jatah waktu yang boleh kita habiskan
berdua. Sia-sia bertahan, sia-sia melawan.
- Avianti Armand
Negeri Para Peri
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.
- Virchand Raghavji Gandhi
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED▼
In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.
- Mark Rowlands
The Philosopher and the Wolf
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.
- Stonewall Jackson
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Love life, Live Love
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Education is meaningless without manners
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly Poems for Children, v.2
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
- Francis Bacon
The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only 'pseudo problems,' because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless. Many of the traditional problems of philosophy, of religion, or of ethics, are of this character. Consider, for example, the problem of the freedom of the will. You maintain that you are free to take either the right- or the left-hand fork in the road. I defy you to set up a single objective criterion by which you can prove after you have made the turn that you might have made the other. The problem has no meaning in the sphere of objective activity; it only relates to my personal subjective feelings while making the decision.
- Percy Williams Bridgman
The Nature of Physical Theory
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED▼
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
- Daniel C. Dennett
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
If everyone wants to be somebody, I want to be somebody else
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
- J.M. Coetzee
The Lives of Animals
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.
- Mary Midgley
The Myths We Live By
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
- Emil Cioran
The Book of Delusions
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with the irresistible power of a diamond.
- Thomas Paine
The Crisis
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend will go to voicemail or an assistant, and you decide not to bother.
- Zack Love
The Syrian Virgin
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Tapi Tuhan juga seperti punya jatah waktu yang boleh kita habiskan
berdua. Sia-sia bertahan, sia-sia melawan.
- Avianti Armand
Negeri Para Peri
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.
- Virchand Raghavji Gandhi
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED▼
In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.
- Mark Rowlands
The Philosopher and the Wolf
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.
- Stonewall Jackson
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Love life, Live Love
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Education is meaningless without manners
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly Poems for Children, v.2
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
- Francis Bacon
The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only 'pseudo problems,' because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless. Many of the traditional problems of philosophy, of religion, or of ethics, are of this character. Consider, for example, the problem of the freedom of the will. You maintain that you are free to take either the right- or the left-hand fork in the road. I defy you to set up a single objective criterion by which you can prove after you have made the turn that you might have made the other. The problem has no meaning in the sphere of objective activity; it only relates to my personal subjective feelings while making the decision.
- Percy Williams Bridgman
The Nature of Physical Theory
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED▼
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
- Daniel C. Dennett
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
If everyone wants to be somebody, I want to be somebody else
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
- J.M. Coetzee
The Lives of Animals
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.
- Mary Midgley
The Myths We Live By
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
- Emil Cioran
The Book of Delusions
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with the irresistible power of a diamond.
- Thomas Paine
The Crisis
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend will go to voicemail or an assistant, and you decide not to bother.
- Zack Love
The Syrian Virgin
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Tapi Tuhan juga seperti punya jatah waktu yang boleh kita habiskan
berdua. Sia-sia bertahan, sia-sia melawan.
- Avianti Armand
Negeri Para Peri
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED▼
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Topic: Philosophical
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