Home / Topics / Philosophical Quotes

Philosophical Quotes

Browse 2604 quotes about Philosophical.

Philosophical Quotes

“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.”

World Ideas Numbers Knowledge Philosophical Appearance Mathematical Live Life Statistics Workout Sharing Knowledge

Author:Aristotle

“I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about. The momentous statements I come across are at best a storm in a teacup. There are quite a number of people who have a vested interest in the stuff, make a noble living out of it, and they conspire with one another to keep it alive.”

People Problem Stuff Interest Numbers Alive Trouble Figures Philosophical Storm Noble Statements Vested Interests Great Philosophical

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.”

Children Has Beens Philosophy Problem Certain Force Numbers Doors Philosophical Locks

Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is being taken seriously even within the scientific community. An increasing number of scientists are aware that mystical thought provides a consistent and relevant philosophical background to the theories of Contemporary science, a conception of the world in which the scientific discoveries of men and women can be in perfect harmony with their spiritual aims and religious beliefs.”

“With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.”

Trying Looks Lasts Goal Numbers Steps Ought Negative Philosophical Regard Climbs Metaphysics Backwards Ladders

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage they're causing, and they will not stop until they've run the world economy off a cliff.”

People World Giving Dream Running Numbers Economy Philosophical Damage Cliffs Small Numbers World Economy Rationale Wildest Dreams

Author:Philipp Meyer

“Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are inexhaustible. They are celebrations of the ordinary, compelling reactions to philosophical elitism about "the good life". I hope to examine both of them further, doing more justice to Joycean comedy than I did in my "invitation" to the Wake, and trying to understand how the extraordinary stylistic innovations, particularly the proliferation of narrative forms, enable Joyce to "see life foully" from a vast number of sides.”

“Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”

Way Numbers Military Philosophical Victim Defined Existentialism Fascism Existentialist

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of a philosophical character; we act on them in private life, in politics, in our work, and in every other sphere of our lives -- but while some of these assumptions are no doubt true, it is likely, that more are false and some are harmful. So the critical examination of our presuppositions -- which is a philosophical activity -- is morally as well as intellectually important.”

Wells Important Philosophy Character Numbers Doubt Our Lives Activity Philosophical Critical Granted Assumption No Doubt Spheres Private Life Examination

Author:Karl Popper

“And what is the greatest number? Number one.”

Numbers Philosophical Competition

Author:David Hume

“Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.”

“The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. ... A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement.”

Made Important Ends Science Natural Numbers Greater Groups Objects Importance Philosophical Artificial Arrangements Propositions Classification

Author:John Stuart Mill

“A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.”

Wisdom Decision Numbers Business Knowledge Philosophical Plato Pursuit Of Knowledge Good Decision Knowledge And Understanding Sharing Knowledge Acquiring Knowledge Useful Knowledge

Book:The Dialogues of Plato

Source: The Dialogues of Plato