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Quotes About Philosophy

The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life
~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Albert Camus did not know he was summing up modern photojournalism when he wrote:"Will I kill myself or have a cup of coffee
~ Sacha Hartgers
When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?
~ Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
~ Socrates
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
~ Gene Wilder
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
~ Winston Churchill
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
~ Confucius
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
~ Voltaire
Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism.
~ Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
~ Rene Descartes
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
~ Bob Marley
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle, Metaphysics
An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
~ Al-Farabi
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.
~ Frank Zappa
If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
~ Pythagoras
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
~ Ayn Rand
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom
~ Plato
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~ Lao Tzu
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
~ Democritus
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
~ Hypatia
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
~ Mircea Eliade