Philosophy Quotes

• I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

  Baruch Spinoza

  God, Faith, Hope

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• Nothing is impossible for pure love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Educational, Literature

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Spirituality is based on development of character and philosophy.

  Radhanath Swami

  Character, Development, Spirituality

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• Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosopher, Habit, Settings

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

  William James

  Way, Facts, Wells

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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• Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

  Confucius

  Karma, Revenge, Journey

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• My mother thought my inclinations would do well in Law, but I was too shy and deliberative - slowfooted - for that, so I determined to be an English and German high school teacher. In my first year of university I had one subject to "fill in" and chose philosophy against the advice of my counselor. My university teachers in English and German were totally uninspiring; philosophy was wonderful and my results showed it. I chose it and basically backed into a situation in which only a philosophy career seemed a viable option. I've never regretted it, but there was a lot of serendipity.

  John Kleinig

  Mother, Teacher, School

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• From time to time I have wished to do more work in philosophy of religion, but the demands and challenges have been such that it needed more work than I had time for. I sneaked a chapter into my book on loyalty that touched on some issues in the area. Maybe in the future I will try responding to Philip Kitcher's excellent critique: Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism - it gets closer to me than much of what is produced in the field.

  John Kleinig

  Loyalty, Book, Challenges

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Companies that understand the purpose and philosophy behind the "why" are usually astute, high- performing organizations that tap directly into the pulse of those they benefit the most. When utilized correctly, this understanding can create a powerful sense of duty and purpose for business teams because the employees know exactly whom they are working for and to what end.

  Don Yaeger

  Powerful, Team, Understanding

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The core philosophy we share with leaders is that everyone can develop the qualities in themselves. We all have strengths, but where we have gaps, we can make small changes in our behavior that make a big difference in how others see us as leaders.

  Suzanne Bates

  Leader, Quality, Behavior

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There have always been people during periods of history that thought that we could get along with the enemy if only we would reach out. Peace in our time is a philosophy.

  Sean Hannity

  People, Enemy, Reach Out

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am not sure just what Marx had in mind when he wrote that "philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." Did he mean that philosophy could change the world, or that philosophers should turn to the higher priority of changing the world? If the former, then he presumably meant philosophy in a broad sense of the term, including analysis of the social order and ideas about why it should be changed, and how. In that broad sense, philosophy can play a role, indeed an essential role, in changing the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Priorities, Mind

  "Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union". Interview with George Yancy, www.nytimes.com. July 5, 2017.

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• Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

  Ayn Rand

  Ambition, Erosion, Goal

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.229, Penguin

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• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

  Henri Bergson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Love, Hurt, Philosophical

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Aug 27, 2013

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• Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would be quite different. [But] the same goes for the pluralist...If the pluralist had been born in [Morocco] he probably wouldn't be a pluralist. Does it follow that...his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief-producing process?

  Alvin Plantinga

  Christian, Islamic, Parent

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• I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Desire, Noise, Goodness

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• All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Relationship, Mirrors

  "Relationships: To Oneself, To Others,To the World".

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• (The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.

  Laozi

  Life, Taoism, Ordinary

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability.

  Kenny Smith

  Responsibility, Exercise, Animal

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• When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Wish, Want

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• Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Confidence, Communication, Humble

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

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• A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Effort, Way, Life Is

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• In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

  Karl Marx

  Eye, Sacred, All Time

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Joseph Stalin (1948). “Ten Classics of Marxism”

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• 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.

  Michel Foucault

  Life, People, Doe

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