Quotes About Philosophy

Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

Nature is not anthropomorphic.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.

In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.