Quotes About Philosophy

I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?

Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?

Everyday objects shriek aloud.

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life.

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

NLP is an attitude and a methodology, not the trail of techniques it leaves behind

It's not the method, it's the mindset.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

You are what you are by what you BELIEVE!

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.