Quotes About Philosophy

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compared to 'believer.' And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It's free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.