Inspirational Quotes
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Philosophy Quotes
Critical ThinkingGender StereotypesHistorical MisconceptionsHumorPhilosophy Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
HabitNaturePhilosophy Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
ArtEducationKnowledgePhilosophyScience A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
ConflictGender RolesPeacePhilosophyWar War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
Intellectual CuriosityKnowledgeLearningPhilosophyValue All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
CommunicationImpactKindnessMoralityPhilosophy Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
ExistenceHuman NatureInseparabilityPhilosophyVirtues and Failings Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Critical ThinkingFoundations Of KnowledgeLogicPhilosophyRationality Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Critique of LiberalismIdentity and PowerPhilosophyPolitical PhilosophySocial Structures The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
AwarenessPhilosophySurpriseTime How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
PhilosophyPracticalityRelevanceTheory The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
HumorLiteraturePhilosophyPoetryReligion And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
ChoicePhilosophyResponsibility One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
EternityNon-violencePhilosophy Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
ArtExpressionImaginationLiteraturePhilosophy A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
BeingConsciousnessMetaphysicsPhilosophy No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
LanguagePhilosophyProgressThinking I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
AgingHuman NatureLife StagesPhilosophySelf-Discovery At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
ObservationPhilosophyRealityTruth The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?
CommunicationIntellectKnowledgeMindfulnessPhilosophy All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
CosmologyCultural HeritageHealthcareLiteraturePhilosophy Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Human NatureNatural OrderPhilosophyReligionScience There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.
