Philosophy Quotes - Page 12

• I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Wish, Poison

  "Chopin". Book by George Richard Marek, Arthur Maling and Maria Gordon-Smith, 1978.

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• Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

  William James

  Philosophical, Sublime, Pursuit

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1979). “Some Problems of Philosophy”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• 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 angel's wings.

  John Keats

  Depression, Angel, Wings

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229

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  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Positive, Family

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

  Paul Tillich

  Roots, Tree, Astonishment

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• Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Theory, Phylosophy

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.9, Routledge

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• Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Philosophical, Ideas, Mind

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• Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.

  John Keats

  Angel, Air, Wings

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.214, Harvard University Press

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• Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mother, Philosophical, Leisure

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.260, Hackett Publishing

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• Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, People, Deep Thought

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• Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophical, Smell, Rose

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  Immanuel Kant

  Ocean, Philosophical, Dark

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• We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Philosophical, Weakness, Treacherous

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• It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Skills, Philosopher, Chiefs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

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• Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophical, Nurse, Dry

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• Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p. 52), 1990.

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• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Men, Law

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• He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

  Milan Kundera

  Plato, Love Is, Two

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• Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?

  Pascal Mercier

  Life, Given, Untapped Potential

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

  Mary Midgley

  Life, Death, Food

  Mary Midgley (1998). “Animals and why They Matter”, p.27, University of Georgia Press

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• There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• We are spirits clad in veils.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Philosophical, Veils, Spirit

  Christopher Pearse Cranch, “Gnosis”

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• We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Accepting, Should, Abandon

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