Philosophy Quotes - Page 26

• Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Motivational, Philosophical, Phantoms

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Philosophical, Thinking, Progress

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• True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Virtue, Reason

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• We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

  Jean Toomer

  Philosophical, Existence, Humans

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• I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Believe, Thinking

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• Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

  Will Durant

  Life, Freedom, Knowledge

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

  Bob Dylan

  Hate, Men, Sky

  Song: Blowin' In The Wind

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• The Killer in me is the Killer in you.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Killers

  Song: Disarm

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• The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Blindness, Delusion, Greater

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• Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated over several centuries, which offered a new concept of social order, encompassing freedom in the only form suited to the modern world. Step by step, in practice and theory, the various sectors of human activity were withdrawn from the jurisdiction of coercive authority and given over to the voluntary action of self-regulating society.

  Ralph Raico

  Self, Order, Practice

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• The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

  Frederick Soddy

  Teaching, Science, Men

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• Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Life, Death, Art

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• The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

  Norman Thomas

  War, Hate, Army

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• While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

  Seth Klarman

  Intelligent, Long, Psychology

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• From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

  Heraclitus

  Oneness, Unity

  "Fragments (Fragment 10)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

  Loren Eiseley

  Life, Future, Men

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.50, Library of America

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• The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us.

  Loren Eiseley

  Time, Dark, Light

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.63, Library of America

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• Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Rights, Mountain

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• If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead.

  Wynn Bullock

  Life, Future, Past

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

  William Osler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Decision

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.18, ACP Press

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• Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source? But is it possible? Whence does the State draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Hands, Political

  "Justice and Fraternity". Journal des Économistes, June 15, 1848.

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• Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

  Gary Becker

  Punishment, Political, Economics

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• [The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of course, bear exclusively the burden of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds through disbursements,and who are, in fact, supported by the government; or, in fewer words, to divide it into tax-payers and tax-consumers. But the effect of this is to place them in antagonistic relations in reference to the fiscal action of the government and the entire course of policy therewith connected.

  John C. Calhoun

  Reality, Class, Two

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• The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Exercise, Men, Political

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364

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