Quotes and sayings about tag  philosophy

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

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• Wisdom

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.

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• Life

All men by nature desire knowledge.

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• Knowledge

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

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• Science

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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• Wisdom

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

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• Humor

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

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• Life

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

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• Faith

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

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• Wisdom

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

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• Happiness

If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about.

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• Inspirational

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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• Humor

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

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• Humor

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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• Inspirational

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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• Life

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

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• Love

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

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• Life

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

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• Inspirational

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

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• Science

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

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• Writing

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

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• Life

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

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• Truth

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

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• Humor

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

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• Life

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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• Life

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

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• Humor

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

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• Life

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

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• Science

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

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• Wisdom