Quotes About Philosophy

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

The older you get and the wealthier you get, the more complicated life becomes. That's why I have as few material assets as possible. Every material thing you have is more hassle.

I hate birthdays.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

The self is hateful.

Each and every head coach has their own ideas and philosophy. This club had a clear picture of what I would bring, and I was aware of what Norwich City means. I decided to sign here because I'm fully convinced this club is where I want to be.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

I believe in free education, free healthcare. But I do not believe in equality.

Guru Nanak Dev lives in our hearts. He is our common legacy. He is the guiding light for the entire humanity.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

I'm an atheist, so I don't believe in a heaven or afterlife. I believe that once I die, that's it.

My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

I believe in a higher power. Some people out there don't.

I've never thought much about energy, or a higher power, or the driving force behind someone's purpose.

I would not score very highly on religious value.

that "meaning" in these traditions has very little to do with what people find meaningful in their lives.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

The only reason for life is life. There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

Is that all the philosophy you have gained in one-and-twenty years? said she. Form is much, but size is nothing.

If you know you are yourself, you know that you are not somebody else; but do you know that you are yourself? Are you sure you are not your own father?—or, excuse me, your own fool?—Who are you, pray?" I