Philosophy Quotes And Sayings

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Here is a collection of philosophy quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. “Can they be brought together?” This is a practical question. We must get down to it. “I despise intelligence” really means: “I cannot bear my doubts.”
– Albert Camus

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
– Albert Camus

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
– Albert Camus

“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.”
– Albert Einstein

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
– Albert Einstein

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
– Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
– Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
– Albert Einstein

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
– Albert Einstein

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
– Albert Einstein

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.” -from the Fox-”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
– Aristotle

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
– Aristotle

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

“The end of labour is to gain leisure.”
– Aristotle

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
– Aristotle

“A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
– Ayn Rand

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
– Ayn Rand

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
– Ayn Rand

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
– Babe Ruth

“Desire is the very essence of man.”
– Baruch Spinoza

“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
– Baruch Spinoza

“True virtue is life under the direction of reason.”
– Baruch Spinoza

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
– Benjamin Spock

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
– Bertrand Russel

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
– Bertrand Russell

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

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the Weather.”
– Bill Hicks

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
– C.S Lewis

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