Quotes About Philosophy

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

If things happen for the good, I say that Lord Krishna wished it so, and if anything goes against me, even then I say Lord Krishna wanted it to happen that way.

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.

Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

On one level, I am a massive joker and can't take anything seriously, but on the other hand, I'm incredibly serious and a deep thinker, so I have that dichotomy within me.

The Stoics appear during a huge time of constant wars and real political strife. And it became very popular, I think, because it's a way of distancing yourself from strife and keeping your centre of gravity within you.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

A witty saying proves nothing.

I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.