Quotes About Philosophy

French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references.

Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.

Sustainability is a part of our 'rise' philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.

If you want to build a sustainable culture, you have to have a strong philosophy and then let people do with it what they will and be OK with that.

Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.

Men and women do not live by bread alone. They also need sustaining ideas.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

And this may be hard to swallow for those deeply embedded in a particular political philosophy, but I think most people - whatever their choices - simply want what's best for themselves, their families and their country. They differ on what that means and the best way to get there.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

I don't ever want to get to the point where I don't think about death! You've got to swim in it, learn from it - embrace it!

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

Klopp's philosophy? Getting the ball back, a quick switching game, combinations and then ice cold in front of goal.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.