Quotes About Philosophy

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas - in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.

For me the most important thing is to spread the Hindu knowledge about the soul. This is more important than any other knowledge and is my main priority.

Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

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Às vezes tenho a sensação de que nada do que acontece acontece, porque nada acontece sem interrupção, nada perdura nem persevera nem se recorda incessantemente, e até a mais monótona e rotineira das existências vai se anulando e negando a si mesma em sua aparente repetição até que nada seja nada e ninguém seja ninguém que tenham sido antes.

supongo que fue la sensación de estar siendo doble sujeto o doble gË™e·bry¯d-guma al mismo tiempo —una sensación desasosegante— lo que me hizo pensar más lejos

contemplando transcurrir el transcurrido tiempo.

To recognize that there can exist a color blindness to blue is as much as to admit that blue exists, which these days seems to me to be more than doubtful.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

A theory must be tempered with reality.