Philosophy Quotes – A Pondering Mind

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote

I and me are always too deep in conversation. Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates Quote

To find yourself think for yourself. Socrates

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 — from the App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cimaxapp.philosophicalquotes

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