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Quotes About Philosophy

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
~ Simone Weil
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
~ Albert Camus
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each one's destiny cannot be altered.
~ Zhuangzi
The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.
~ William Shatner
What if destiny doesn't care?
~ Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
~ Seneca the Younger
William Shakespeare
~ Unknown
I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.
~ Alicia Silverstone
One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.
~ Immanuel Kant
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
~ Karl Marx
I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
~ Morrissey
The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
~ Immanuel Kant
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.
~ Ernst Mach
By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream
~ Gustave Flaubert
Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?
~ David Hewson, Macbeth
Philosophers think, creators make!
~ Stephen Richards
It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.
~ Immanuel Kant
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
~ Antisthenes