“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.”
~ Laozi
Philosophy Quotes
“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
“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” ~ Albert Camus
Are We Human
“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
To Be A Philosopher
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
“Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don’t look for anything else.” ~Bertrand Russell
The Wonder Remains
“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”
~ Alfred North Whitehead
“There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.” ~Alfred North Whitehead
To think is to differ. ~Clarence Darrow
“A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.” ~Peter Deunov
Peter Deunov, Bulgarian Philosopher – July 11, 1864 – December 27, 1944
Nothing In Nature
“Nothing in nature is by chance… Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.”
~ Baruch Spinoza
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
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know. ~ Bertrand Russell
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. ~Bertrand Russell
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me. ~ G. W. F. Hegel
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~ Bertrand Russell
“Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s lnability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -Blaise Pascal
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~William James
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. ~ Bertrand Russell
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. ~ Marcus Aurelius
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. ~ Oscar Wilde
“How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?” ~ John Stuart Mill
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t. ~ Albert Camus
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. ~ Bertrand Russell
The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception. ~ George Boole
Two Kinds Of Truth
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
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
Justice For All
Good Books
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
Reading ~ Judith Butler
“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.” – Judith Butler
Thinking
“Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.”
– Slavoj Žižek
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
Aristotle On Madness
Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
I and me
are always
too deep in
conversation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Socrates Quote
To find yourself think for yourself.
Socrates
K.M. Douglas Quote
There’s only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.
– K.M. Douglas
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