Quotes About Philosophy

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

I've been thinking," he said. "Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.

Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan served this country well, he did not celebrate his birthday, he celebrated it for teachers.

The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

In the past perhaps I would have declined, but I now recalled the Poet's dictum—"To stay is to be nowhere"—and I was happy to accept.

So to say that you don't believe in the supernatural is a contradiction in terms - because it means that you also don't believe in the natural. Neither can exist without the other.' 'Oh come on', I said impatiently. 'That's just semantics'. 'Yes, you're right. But the whole world is made up of semantics and yours are those of the seventeenth century. Even though you think you are modern.