Philosophy Quotes
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes Language disguises thought.
Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig Wittgenstein The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
NovalisNovalis Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
NovalisNovalis Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts, if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.
Ram DassRam Dass I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
David HumeDavid Hume But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
HerodotusHerodotus I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah..
Ronald ReaganRonald Reagan So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
Richard FeynmanRichard Feynman He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon