Best 2580 quotes in «philosophical quotes» category

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a fact, .. Evolution is a fact in the same sense that it's a fact that the Earth is round and not flat, [that] the Earth goes round the Sun. Both those are also theories, but they're theories that have never been disproved and never will be disproved.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to their attitude. Things happen rapidly in the country; something new always comes along to divert them and it isn't necessarily another calamity.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation. She is not afraid to exhibit herself to them.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account.

Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary associations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Fury itself supplies arms.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.

Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality.

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

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage they're causing, and they will not stop until they've run the world economy off a cliff.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.