Quotes and sayings about tag  philosophy

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

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• Hope

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

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• Truth

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

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• Life

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

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• Wisdom

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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• Humor

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

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• Life

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

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• Life

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

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• Inspirational

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.

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• Wisdom

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

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• Love

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

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• Humor

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

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• Science

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

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• Inspirational

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

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• Inspirational

God is an ever-receding pocket of? scientific ignorance.

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• Science

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

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• Inspirational

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

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• Humor

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

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• Wisdom

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

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• Education

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

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• Wisdom

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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• Inspirational

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.

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• Love

belief is the death of intelligence.

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• Faith

I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.

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• Romance

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

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• Life

Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto

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• Humor

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

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• Love

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

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• Love

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

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• Life