Quotes and sayings about tag  philosophy

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

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• Inspirational

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

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• Life

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

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• Life

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

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• Wisdom

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

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• Wisdom

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

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• Wisdom

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

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• Wisdom

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

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• Wisdom

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

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• Science

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

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• Wisdom

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

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• Life

The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.

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• Life

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

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• Science

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

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• Happiness

May you live every day of your life.

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• Life

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

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• Hope

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

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• Life

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

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• Truth

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

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• Books

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

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• Wisdom

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

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• Wisdom

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

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• Humor

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

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• Inspirational

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

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• Hope

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

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• Knowledge

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

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• Truth

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

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• Inspirational

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

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• Life

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

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• Love

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

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• Hope