Quotes About Philosophy

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.