Quotes About Philosophy

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

A legacy, or things like that, I've never really been a big thinker in that way. You know, it's kind of just been trying to go each day.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.

Climbing has so much more culture than all other activities put together. There is no culture in tennis, just a few names, a few dates. No big culture in soccer. But we have thousands of books, great philosophers, thinkers, painters.

It interests me when I hear people quoting great thinkers, because it's like, OK, but does that make you any brighter?

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

I'm constantly thinking.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.