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Quotes About Philosophy

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
~ Antonio Porchia
What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?
~ Immanuel Kant
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
~ Honore de Balzac
The atheist has no hope.
~ James Freeman Clarke
I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.
~ Margaret Mahy
But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
~ Christian Lous Lange
Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.
~ Samuel Johnson
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.
~ Bruce Lee
I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.
~ Tom Shadyac
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
~ Danny Boyle
When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.
~ George Eliot
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
~ Seneca the Younger
I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.
~ Mack McLarty
I don't believe in God. ...I hope he doesn't hold that against me.
~ Rick Reynolds
Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope the same without such opinion despair.
~ Thomas Hobbes
A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us.
~ Jason Haxton
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
~ Jasper Fforde
Benny pushed a slow breath through his teeth. "Is it so terrible to believe in something?
~ Melanie Crowder, A Nearer Moon
Hope deceitful as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.
~ La Rochefoucauld
A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.
~ Martin Heidegger
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
~ Ben Okri
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
~ Walter Savage Landor
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
I love Humanity but I hate humans
~ Albert Einstein