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Quotes About Philosophy

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.
~ Kedar Joshi
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
~ John Fowles, The Magus
A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
~ Joseph Joubert
What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?
~ Alan Bennett
Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
~ Blaise Pascal
Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?
~ Spike Jonze
I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.
~ David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.
~ Chilon of Sparta
There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.
~ Confucius
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
~ Boethius
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest
~ Francis Bacon
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
~ James Kern Feibleman
What is pity but the vice of kindness.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
~ Seneca the Younger
After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.
~ Joseph William Martin, Jr.
When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.
~ Sharon Gannon
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
With those who are kindthe sage is kindWith those who are not kindthe sage is also kindbecause the way of Tao is kindness
~ Lao Tzu