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Quotes About Philosophy

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
~ Alain Badiou
Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.
~ Linus Pauling
My Way is the Way of Karate, which is also the Way of humanity, and which is consequently related to the Way of Heaven.
~ Mas Oyama
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
~ Isaiah Berlin
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.
~ Immanuel Kant
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
~ Robert Fulghum
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers
~ Plato
The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.
~ Phil Collins
It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.
~ Ian MacKaye
The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.
~ Victor J. Stenger
I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.
~ Eddie Izzard
Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.
~ Immanuel Kant
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
~ Paul Goodman
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.
~ Albert Einstein
What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.
~ Albert Einstein
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap."
~ Leo Errera
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
~ Thomas Mann
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
~ Samuel Johnson
The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.
~ Paul Davies
Lies are essential to humanity.
~ Marcel Proust
Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll