Philosophy Quotes - Page 13

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophical, Funny Work, Racing

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• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Philosophical, Suicidal

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

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• Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

  Wallace Stevens

  Science, Philosopher, Values

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.248, Vintage

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• Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.

  Tom Thomson

  Next, Wave, Canoeing

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  Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Too Late, Leviathan

  Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."

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• It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

  Ayn Rand

  Trust, Greatness, Knowing

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.180, Penguin

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• The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

  Epicurus

  Life, Gratitude, Lying

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  No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Bad Day

  "Robin Williams: Genie in the Lamp" by Alex Kip, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

  Edward Albee

  Distance, Philosophical, Knowledge

  Edward Albee (2011). “At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story”, p.63, The Overlook Press

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• Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

  Antonio Porchia

  Philosophical, Chains That Bind, Break

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Greatness, Errors

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 17, 2017

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• Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

  John Ray

  Philosophical, Men, Tables

  "A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used".

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• he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophical, Thinking, Errors

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• Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Science, Errors

  A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 1 (1739)

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• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Life, Inspiring, Funny Inspirational

  Quoted in Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best (1974)

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• Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

  Antonio Porchia

  Philosophical, Use, Littles

  Antonio Porchia, “Aphorisms”

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• There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Three, Literature, Indifference

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wisdom, Healing

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Children, Educational

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• She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

  Horace

  Educational, Words Of Wisdom, Helpful

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• Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels—but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.

  Alan Judd

  Dream, Art, Angel

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• The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Simple, Simplicity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism”, p.20, Routledge

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• To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Mountain, Climbs, Knows

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