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Quotes About Philosophy

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love the questions, themselves.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Learn to love the questions themselves.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.
~ Rajneesh
I have been in love with the thought of Heraclitus.
~ Rajneesh
The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.
~ Rajneesh
One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Those alone are wise who know how to love.
~ Seneca the Younger
I fell in love with the Mediterranean philosophy of good wine, good food and family.
~ Stephen White
Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
~ Thomas Browne
I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."
~ Tom Courtenay
I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.
~ William Mapother
For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
~ William Peter Blatty
No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.
~ Anthony Marais
Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.
~ Augustus William Hare
The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.
~ Bertrand Russell
In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost.
~ Billy Corgan
Aristotle said, Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Isn't that a three-way?
~ Bob Saget
I love The Matrix, especially the first one.
~ Cass Sunstein
Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The love of freedom is actually an aberration.
~ Dennis Prager
Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.
~ Donald Barthelme
Imitate Jesus and Socrates
~ Benjamin Franklin