Quotes About Philosophy

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

Philosophy can make people sick.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors