Quotes About Wisdom

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: "Why it's nothing at all but pure water!"

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

Intuition tells me how to live my day, intuition tells me when to walk away.

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.

Philosophy is an act of living.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.