Home / Topics / Philosophical Quotes

Philosophical Quotes

Browse 2604 quotes about Philosophical.

Philosophical Quotes

“Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.”

Philosophy Dies Philosophical Rose Smell Bees Sooner Or Later Inhale

Author:Christopher Titus

“We are brought into this world cold, weak, and helpless. Then it gets worse.”

World Philosophy This World Cold Weak Philosophical Helpless

Author:Christopher Titus

“Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.”

Philosophy Remember Philosophical Pissed Off

Author:Christopher Titus

“O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!”

Philosophy Heaven Philosophical Deeds Ghost Mysterious Awful

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.”

Philosophy Spirituality Knowing Awareness Respect Philosophical Be Here Now

Author:Ram Dass

“If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.”

Ifs Thinking Philosophy Freedom Yoga Philosophical Daring Ministry Be Here Now

Author:Ram Dass

“Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.”

Firsts Philosophy Problem Teacher Discipline Logic Philosophical Method Details Greek Introduction

Author:Ibn Khaldun

“The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole. A reductionist philosophy, arbitrarily proclaiming that the growth of understanding must go only in one direction, makes no scientific sense. Indeed, dogmatic philosophical beliefs of any kind have no place in science.”

Kind Philosophy Whole Belief Understanding Growth Progress Philosophical One Direction Dogmatic Proclaiming

Book:Nature's imagination: the frontiers of scientific vision

Source: Nature's imagination: the frontiers of scientific vision

“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”

Source: Course of the History of Modern Philosophy

“In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within the solar system, or with any other portion of space and time. . . . This brings us to a second characteristic of philosophical propositions, namely that they must be a priori. A philosophical proposition must be such as can neither be proved nor disproved by empirical evidence. . . . Philosophy, if what has been said is correct, becomes indistinguishable from logic as that word has now come to be used.”

“The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.”

Philosophy Beautiful Song Known Philosophical Tongue

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute”

World Mind Believe Self Philosophy Rocks Capable Absolutes Philosophical Bottom Stupidity Immense Thrones Impressive Self Inflicted

Author:Erich Heller

“Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.”

Men Philosophy Form Desire Order Building Spring Philosophical Perceive Reasoning Endeavor Constructs Dominion Gnosis

Book:The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin

Source: The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin

“I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.”

Ifs Knows Hard Philosophy Able Belief Theory Prove Claims Philosophical Hesitation Prove It

Author:Stephen Cole Kleene

“It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.”

Philosophy Courses Our Lives Circumstances Philosophical Determine Currents Sail

Author:Jim Rohn

“Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.”

Giving Art Reason Philosophy Existence History Giving Up Judgment Philosophical Seats Justify

Book:Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Source: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific