Philosophy Quotes - Page 14

• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

  John Locke

  Business, War, Philosophical

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding "Dedicatory Epistle" (1690)

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Done, Should

  10 Copy quote

• Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.

  Snoop Dogg

  Cutting, Dope, Gun

  150 Copy quote

• Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Fear, Philosophical

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1971). “Saint Thomas Aquinas”

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

  Edward Blishen

  Education, Discipline, Psychology

  7 Copy quote

• There is no reality except the one contained within us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Reality, Unreal, Demian

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

• An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Years, History

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4514, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Science, Men

  4 Copy quote

• It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

  Lydia M. Child

  Spiritual, Mistake, Mean

  7 Copy quote

• If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Love You, Wells, Ifs

  9 Copy quote

• Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers.

  William O. Douglas

  Believe, Political, Liberty

  7 Copy quote

• The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very small number; and the life of the greater part of mankind must be lost in empty wishes and painful comparisons, were not the balm of philosophy shed upon us, and our discontent at the appearances of unequal distribution soothed and appeased.

  Samuel Johnson

  Small Numbers, Humanity, Wish

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.110

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Ideas, Law

  18 Copy quote

• Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Real, Men

  7 Copy quote

• The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Liberty, Cooperation, Individualism

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.188, Lulu Press, Inc

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

  Murray Rothbard

  Political, Liberty, Economic

  The Austrian Economics Newsletter Interview, 1990.

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.

  Gary North

  Liberty, Libertarian, Way

  15 Copy quote

• Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that almost a new Nature has been revealed to us? that more errours of the School have been detected, more useful Experiments in Philosophy have been made, more Noble Secrets in Opticks, Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated.

  John Dryden

  School, Science, Errors

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.4055, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by his assistance. ... He is indeed a man born for the good of mankind, and for the honour of his country. ... So I may thank God, that Dr. Wilkins was an Englishman, for wherever he had lived, there had been the chief seat of generous knowledge and true philosophy.

  Robert Hooke

  God, Country, Knowledge

  29 Copy quote

• Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion.

  Humphry Davy

  Science, Mind, Alive

  4 Copy quote

• After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing between flashes of intense perception. ... Rigidly denying himself the amusement of philosophy, which consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems, and liked to wander past them in a courteous temper, even bowing to them distantly as though recognizing their existence, while doubting their respectibility.

  Henry Adams

  Knowledge, Science, Past

  7 Copy quote

• By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.

  H. L. Mencken

  Knowledge, Science, Curiosity

  4 Copy quote

• One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the "ought" from the "is." My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce.

  Jacques Monod

  Knowledge, Science, Views

  7 Copy quote

• Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance in knowledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had ...and will belong to science.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knowledge, Science, People

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism”, p.124, Routledge

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

  Immanuel Kant

  Knowledge, Science, Principles

  20 Copy quote