Quotes About Philosophy

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.

Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life's basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.

My philosophy has always been to stand with all countries and all humanity.

My style philosophy is: Be comfortable.

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.

Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

To be nice to people and make them happy - that's my philosophy in life.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?