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Quotes About Philosophy

Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
~ Alain Badiou
I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.
~ Kelly Preston
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.
~ Aristotle
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
~ Aristotle
The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
~ E. O. Wilson
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
~ E. O. Wilson
If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
~ Emanuel Celler
Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love?
~ Eugene Mirman
Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
~ John Jay Chapman
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality
~ John Stuart Mill
I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.
~ Robert Wyatt
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
~ Samuel Johnson
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
~ Seneca the Younger
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
~ Thomas Aquinas
When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
~ William O'Brien
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
~ Marcus Aurelius
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
~ Mason Cooley
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.
~ Mortimer Adler
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
~ Philip Sidney
You must base the Wisdom on Love.
~ Plato
The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.
~ Olaf Stapledon