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Quotes About Philosophy

In Wahrheit hat sehr vieles mit dem meisten etwas zu tun, nur nicht der Satz »Dies hat mit jenem nichts zu tun« mit Nachdenken und Differenziertheit.
~ Axel Hacke
Cilv?ks neiztur?tu dz?ves smagumu, ja zin?tu savu n?ves stundu.
~ Axel Munthe
O kas yra Laikas? - paklaus? gnomas. -To aš negaliu paaiškinti, ir niekas tau nepasakys, kas yra Laikas. Sako, kad Laikas susideda iš trij? skirting? dalyk?: praeities, dabarties ir ateities.
~ Axel Munthe
This was an infidel country, whose way of life we Muslims were supposed to oppose and reject. Why was it, then, so much better run, better led, and made for such better lives than the places we came from? Shouldn't the places where Allah was worshipped and His laws obeyed have been at peace and wealthy, and the unbelievers' countries ignorant, poor, and at war?
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I think, therefore I'll think.
~ Ayn Rand
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
~ Ayn Rand
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
~ Ayn Rand
I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.
~ Ayn Rand
The teaching of the Buddha is called the Dhamma. He did not teach Buddhism, any more than Jesus taught Christianity.
~ Ayya Khema
Yahu, komünist Rusya'ya bile iÅŸçi gönderecekler ha? Paran?n komünisti, faÅŸisti, dini iman? olur mu arkadaÅŸ, para parad?r, gelsin de nerden gelirse gelsin. Ben komünistin paras?n? al?p cami yapt?rd?ktan, kuran kursu açt?ktan sonra bir günah? yok ki... Üstelik sevab? bile var.
~ aziz nesin
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
~ B. F. Skinner
What is the meaning to life? Life is not such a small imisible spec as to only have one meaning. It is up to each individual to identify their own meaning of life. Or to say that their is not one. The answer lies with you.
~ B. Imus
All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism.
~ B. J. Gupta
High living and high thinking are poles apart.
~ B. J. Gupta
There is no logical answer to the question ' Why be moral'. Religions provide practical answers to the question.
~ B. J. Gupta
Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.
~ B. Traven
Freedom is an illusion, but a valuable one.
~ B.F Skinner
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
~ B.F. Skinner
A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
~ B.F. Skinner
wars would continue until the makers of gunpowder became professors of Greek, and he here had Gilbert Murray in mind, or the professors of Greek became the makers of gunpowder. And this, in turn, was derived from Plato's conclusion that the affairs of mankind would never go right until either the rulers became philosophers or the philosophers became the rulers.
~ B.H. Liddell Hart
High thinking and high living are poles apart.
~ B.J. Gupta
Patañjali is saying that yoga is a preventive healing art, science and philosophy, by which we build up robust health in body and mind and construct a defensive strength with which to deflect or counteract afflictions that are as yet unperceived afflictions.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
begins the Yoga S?tras with atha, meaning 'now', and ends with iti, 'that is all'. Besides this search for the soul, there is nothing.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar