“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”
~ George Berkeley
Tag Archives: Philosophical Quotes
One Day Left
“There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
“Who lies for you will lie against you.” ~ John Locke
Watch Your Thoughts
“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.”
~ Laozi
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~ Aristotle
Philosophical Animal
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
~ Theophile Gautier
Philosophical Questions
“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
“If you chase two rabbits,you catch none.” ~ Confucius
“Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don’t look for anything else.” ~Bertrand Russell
Human Conception
“Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.”
~ Sri Aurobindo
Equal Right
“All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”
~ John Locke
People Know What They Do ~ Michel Foucault
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.”
~ Michel Foucault
Genius And Madness
“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Thoughts
“Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.”
– William James
Life Is Short ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
J. L. Austin Quote
“A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words…. Statements are made, words or sentences are used.”
– J. L. Austin
Lies
Being
Philosophical Quote
See without looking,
hear without listening,
breathe without asking.
~W.H. Auden
Dr Seuss Quote
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
-Dr Seuss
Books…
Books give a soul to the universe,
wings to the mind, flight to
the imagination, and life to
everything else.
-Plato
Socrates
Sometimes you put walls up
not to keep people out,
but to see who cares enough
to break them down.
Socrates
Voltaire
It is dangerous
to be right
when the government
is wrong.
Voltaire
Philosophical Zombies
Plato On Books
Books give a soul
to the universe,
wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination,
and life to everything.
Plato
Aristotle On Madness
This Is More Or Less True
Voltaire Quote
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
– Voltaire
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Young Children
Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: ‘What is real? What is truth?’ They have to learn it; they don’t automatically know it. To them, it’s a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.
– Sharon Creech
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Bertrand Russell
Free Thinking
Others indeed may talk, and write,
and fight about liberty, and make
outward pretense to it; but the
free-thinker alone is truly free.
George Berkeley
Simple Philosophy
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
