Philosophical Quotes - Page 12

• The best things in life make you sweaty.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Purpose, Puberty

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• By daily dying, I have come to be.

  Theodore Roethke

  Philosophy, Dying

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• Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Philosophy, Science, Inseparable

  Hans Reichenbach (1973). “The Rise of Scientific Philosophy”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

  Seneca the Younger

  Doe, Noble, Poverty

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

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• He has committed the crime who profits by it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Poverty, Crime, Profit

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

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• Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Danger, Exposure, Constant

  "De Providentia", IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 158-160), 1922.

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• Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Civilization, Play, Debauchery

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Gains, Defeated

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

  Anatole France

  Philosophy, Museums, Paris

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

  William James

  Philosophy, 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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• The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Fate, Deserve More

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• An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

  Henri Bergson

  Intuition, Analysis, Instinct

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

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• No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Powerful, Heart

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• Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Strong, Animal, Men

  "Memoirs of Childhood and Youth". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1924.

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• But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

  George Herbert

  Plato, Philosophy, Science

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• Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.

  William Golding

  Life, Moving, Fall

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• We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fun, Serious, Capacity

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• It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.

  Joe Hill

  Exercise, Evil, Interesting

  Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Taught, Sin

  Blaise Pascal (1962). “Pensées”

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• Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Time, Men

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• This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

  Victor Hugo

  Heaven, Soul, Dawn

  Victor Hugo (1894). “The novels, complete and unabridged, of Victor Hugo”

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• Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Emotional, Oil, People

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, World Religions, Differences

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• What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

  Isaac Newton

  Littles, Way, Steps

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