Philosophy Quotes - Page 32

• It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

  David Hume

  Easy, Certain, Preference

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Funeral, Wish, Firsts

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• There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself.

  Rumi

  Journey, Needs, Rubies

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• Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Men, Speak

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• My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.

  Harlan Ellison

  Frustration, Life Is, Personal Strength

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook”, p.208, Open Road Media

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• There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

  Umberto Eco

  Past, Self, Average

  Umberto Eco (1986). “Faith in Fakes: Essays”, Harvill Secker

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• I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Struggle, Ubuntu

  Kenneth L. Smith, Martin Luther King (Jr.), Ira G. Zepp (1986). “Search for the beloved community: the thinking of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Emotional, Self

  Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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• The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  Renata Adler

  Sex, Loneliness, Party

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• For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

  Aldous Huxley

  Political, Doubt, Morality

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

  Karl Marx

  Love, World, Philosopher

  "The German Ideology". Book by Karl Marx (p. 103), 1845-1846.

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  One word
  Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
  That word is love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Life, Wedding

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

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• If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

  Peter Block

  Art, Believe, Feelings

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• Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

  Saraha

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Medicine

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• Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

  Austin O'Malley

  Atheist, Mind, Atheism

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• The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

  Plato

  Plato, Drinking, Water

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• Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

  Plato

  Plato, Becoming, Elegance

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• That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

  Plato

  Plato, Thinking, Law

  Plato (1921). “Theaetetus, Sophist”

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• Philosophy is the highest music.

  Plato

  Music, Wisdom, Plato

  Plato (2016). “Apology Of Socrates And Crito”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

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• All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

  Plato

  Teacher, Educational, Literature

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• Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

  Robert Zend

  Hipster, Work, Philosopher

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• It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

  Xenophanes

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Xenophanes, James H. Lesher (2001). “Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments : a Text and Translation with a Commentary”, p.197, University of Toronto Press

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• Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

  Plato

  Powerful, Gay, Government

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• It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view, the whole scheme of nature; but to extend, with great care and circumspection, our knowledge, by just steps, from sensible things, as far as our observations or reasonings from them will carry us, in our enquiries concerning either the greater motions and operations of nature, or her more subtile and hidden works. In this way Sir Isaac Newton proceeded in his discoveries.

  Colin Maclaurin

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

  Colin Maclaurin (1750). “An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries. 2. Ed”, p.20

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• Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Feelings, Philosopher

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