Philosophy Quotes - Page 9

• Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

  Kinky Friedman

  Beauty, Drinking, Eye

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• The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be taught any lessons. [...] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.

  Mel Brooks

  Names, Want Something, People

  "Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 13, 2012.

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• There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Art, Philosopher, Objections

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.232, Routledge

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• A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Philosopher, Problem, Solutions

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• Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Future, Past, Evil

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• I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen backdrops, but it's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary.

  Sally Mann

  Art, People, Everyday

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  It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Golden Sayings of Epictetus". Book translated by Hastings Crossley, 2012.

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• To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Book, Knowing, Needs

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.174, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Badass, Philosophical

  Bertrand Russell (1995). “My Philosophical Development”, p.204, Psychology Press

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• ... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

  Josef Pieper

  Thinking, Soul, Mind

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• What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Bottles, Way

  Philosophical Investigations pt. 1, sec. 309 (1953)

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• In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Plato, Science, Men

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• Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

  Norton Juster

  Unexpected, Phantom Tollbooth, Happens

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.20, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosopher, Minutes, Circumstances

  Oliver Goldsmith (1819). “The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East”, p.124

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• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Spiritual, Memorable

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 166

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• Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Children, Educational

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Mean, History

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Becoming, Individual

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• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

  Socrates

  Death, People, Deep Life

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• Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Graduation, Sports

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.10, University of Georgia Press

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• ...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

  Plato

  Political, Words Of Wisdom, Should

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nature, Sleep, Men

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 27, 2016

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• To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

  Thomas Browne

  Faith, Believe, Belief

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 48.

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• But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Experience, Phrases

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.683, Oxford Paperbacks

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• True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

  Victor Cousin

  Cousin

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