Philosophy Quotes And Sayings

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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
– Plato

“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”
– Plutarch

“As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.”
– Protagoras

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
– Richard Dawkins

“belief is the death of intelligence.”
– Robert Anton Wilson

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
– Rollo May

“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
– Santosh Kalwar

“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.”
– Sartre

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
– Seneca the Younger

“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”
– Seneca the Younger

“It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.”
– Seneca the Younger

“The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.”
– Seneca the Younger

“An honest man is always a child.”
– Socrates

“How many are the things I can do without!”
– Socrates

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
– Socrates

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
– Stephen Hawking

“Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”
– Stephen King

“You didn’t kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn’t kill him.”
– Tamora Pierce

“Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.”
– Thales

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.”
– Virgil

“Love conquers all.”
– Virgil

“Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.”
– Virgil

“A truth that’s told with bad intent
– William Blake

“Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.”
– William James

“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.”
– William James

“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”
– William James

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on. ”
– William S. Burroughs

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
– William Shakespeare

“If it turns out that there is a God…the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.”
– Woody Allen

“It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.”
– Xenophanes

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