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Quotes About Philosophy

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
~ Epicurus
When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
~ Bertrand Russell
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
~ Emile M. Cioran
I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.
~ Jim Carrey
The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.
~ Amar Bose
Philosophy begins in wonder.
~ Plato
My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.
~ Dick Dale
Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists.
~ Frederick Lenz
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.
~ Hippolyte Taine
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
~ Francis Bacon
According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.
~ Swami Vivekananda
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.
~ Seth Klarman
Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.
~ Rajneesh
The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's existence apart from divine revelation.
~ William Lane Craig
As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
~ Andre Dubus
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.
~ George Santayana
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.
~ Elvis Presley
Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.
~ Edmund Husserl
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
~ Gilles Deleuze
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
~ James A. Garfield
Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy.
~ Li Ka-shing
To be is to be perceived
~ George Berkeley