Tag Archives: Philosophy Quotes

There are two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

~ Gottfried Leibniz

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know. ~ Bertrand Russell

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. ~George Berkeley

Common Sense

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Rene Descartes

Life Is The Fire …..

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternty.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. ~ Voltaire

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. ~ Francis Bacon

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. ~Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. ~Thomas Aquinas

There are two ways to be fooled. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
~ Soren Kierkegaard, Philosopher – B: May 5, 1813 – D: November 11, 1855

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

Quote: Soren Kierkegaard ~ Life

Thoughts

“Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.”
– William James

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

Animal

“I don’t care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!” – Jeremy Bentham

Ancient Philosopher

“According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat” – Moliere

Stars Quote ~ Neil Gaiman

“A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now that’s a question.”
– Neil Gaiman